Bridging Africa’s infrastructure requires institutions that connect capital, expertise across borders says Adeniyi
Olubusayo Adeniyi has a clear message for anyone paying attention to Africa's infrastructure conversation: the gap will not close itself. As CEO of Cedrus Group Africa, Adeniyi believes the real work lies in building institutions that can do something most players on the continent still struggle to do, which is connect capital and expertise across borders at the same time.
For Adeniyi, it is not enough to have money on one side and technical know-how on the other. The institutions doing the most meaningful work are the ones that can hold both, moving resources and knowledge together rather than treating them as separate problems with separate solutions.
The argument is straightforward but easy to overlook. Africa's infrastructure deficit is well documented, yet the conversation often circles back to funding alone. Adeniyi shifts the focus toward capacity, toward the kind of institutional architecture that makes cross-border collaboration not just possible but reliable.
What that looks like in practice, and how Cedrus Group Africa is building toward it, is the question worth watching closely.
Originally published by BusinessDay.