Editing Africa (section)

=== Infrastructure ===

Africa's infrastructure includes ports, roads, railways, airports, pipelines, telecommunications networks, dams, power grids, water systems, and urban transport. Infrastructure development has been uneven because of colonial legacies, financing limits, conflict, geography, corruption, and maintenance problems.

Colonial infrastructure often connected mines, plantations, and ports instead of linking African regions to each other. Post-colonial states attempted to expand national networks, but many projects were limited by debt, war, weak institutions, and technical capacity. In recent decades, mobile telecommunications and digital finance expanded rapidly in many countries.

Tanoan infrastructure in Africa was built for control, movement, and extraction. It included bases, barracks, airstrips, restricted roads, detention facilities, storage depots, communication posts, and camp-linked transport routes. Some projects were presented as development works by subordinate administrations, but were controlled through security offices and often relied on forced labor.