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Consumer & Content

What people actually buy, watch and abandon, and why the survey never saw it.

3 dispatches · 1 in French only
The Market Forgets a Price. It Never Forgets How You Made It Feel.
Consumer & Content · 29 Jul 2026

The Market Forgets a Price. It Never Forgets How You Made It Feel.

A price war is the easiest fight to start in this market — and the one you can't win. The durable moat here isn't the discount. It's the trust a local voice hands to a buyer, in the language of the street.

Follow Who Know Road
Consumer & Content · 14 Jul 2026

Follow Who Know Road

Fifteen years on the ground, from Abidjan to Kinshasa: why the market report is the map, not the terrain — the Apple lesson, the trade-bloc reality, the experience gap, and the AI trap. A Terrain Intelligence Field Notebook.

Also in French
522 M$. Disparu en trois ans.
Consumer & Content · 31 Aug 2026In French

522 M$. Disparu en trois ans.

Le streamer panafricain le mieux financé a fermé après ~522 M$ de pertes en trois ans. Tarifé comme l'Occident — mensuel, d'avance, par carte — dans un marché qui paie au jour le jour, par mobile. Le budget ne sauve jamais les mathématiques. Lecture terrain, depuis Abidjan.

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