Former NBCUniversal exec is ditching Hollywood to back African mediatech

Naguib Sawiris's battery-swapping group has built the largest network of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether each cabinet earns back the batteries it cycles is a question it has not answered.

The central question is whether the chip stockpile proves to be prudent insurance or an expensive bet.

In the space of a fortnight, a handful of browser games built by Nigerian developers has generated more attention, and more argument, than the country’s game industry has seen in years. The question is whether any of it constitutes a market.