In the year 2084, the continent glittered from the sky. At night, the coastlines of Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana glowed with towers of mirrored glass and algorithmic billboards that spoke in borrowed accents. The cities had become exhibitions of imported modernity: vertical forests of steel, surveillance drones, biometric checkpoints, luxury enclaves, climate domes and endless holographic advertisements promising “Global Citizenship.”
Visitors called them the New African Corridors. The elites called them progress. Beneath the light
