Archive - Canary Compass

Friday Reflections: Who Does the Thinking

AI-illustration: the stack at desk scale, and the cap that stays on your side.

Oct 9 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA TECHNOLOGY NOTE: Who Owns The Stack

Part 4: The Market, the Test, and the Answer

Oct 8 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA TECHNOLOGY NOTE: Who Owns The Stack

Part 3: The Nexus, the Lines, and the Scenarios

Oct 7 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA TECHNOLOGY NOTE: Who Owns The Stack

Part 2: The Forced Choice

Oct 6 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA TECHNOLOGY NOTE: Who Owns The Stack

Part 1: Why Africa Supplies the Intelligence Economy and Rents It Back

Oct 4 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: Kenya's Next Twelve Months

AI-illustration: Kenya's 2027 election, one year out

Oct 2 • Dean Onyambu

ZAMBIA MACRO NOTE: The Two-Sided Coin

The buyback the world graded, the ledger published with its signs dropped, and a 250-point cut into risks the Committee itself named.

Oct 2 • Dean Onyambu

September 2026

Friday Reflections: Marked to Market

AI-illustration: The difference between a mark and a model is order and witness.

Sep 25 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: Cronyism Without a Crony

AI-illustration: There is no one to fire.

Sep 18 • Dean Onyambu

KENYA POLICY NOTE: Converting Vices into a Virtuous Sporting Cycle

The Conversion Channel

Sep 17 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: The Second 43

AI-illustration: The Second 43.

Sep 13 • Dean Onyambu

August 2026

Friday Reflections: The Free Option

AI-illustration: The ledger opens in the first hour.

Aug 28 • Dean Onyambu

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