Skin in the Game: Why Africa’s Next Regional Corridors Will Be Shaped by Shared Ownership

Africa's infrastructure integration story is being written now, and the most important decisions are no longer about whether regional integration matters. Among policymakers and multilateral institutions, that argument has largely been won. The real question is what form integration takes in practice, who controls the assets that make it possible, and what role the countries that depend on those assets are willing to play: passive customers, negotiated access-holders, or equity partners with governance rights.