Africa’s fast-growing pension industry, led by Nigeria’s N28.04 trillion pension assets as of January 2026, is largely sitting on the sidelines even as demand for digital infrastructure rises sharply across the continent.
Governments are digitising public services, businesses are moving to the cloud, and artificial intelligence applications are expanding. But the money needed to build data centres and computing infrastructure still falls short of demand.
Global technology firms are meanwhile committing tens of billions of dollars every ye
