Alpha Barry - Building a New City in Nigeria and Full Stack Industrial Development (Frontier Markets Podcast #4)

In this episode of the Frontier Markets Podcast, we have a conversation with Alpha Barry. Alpha is the founder of a new city building company called Temple Cities, which is currently advancing phase one of its flagship project in Nigeria. You can read the announcement here. In this episode, we discuss:

• The importance of industrialisation for economic growth and unlocking regional economies within Africa
• The full stack investment approach that enables the creation and growth of economic ecosystems - and how this differs from otherwise fragmented approaches to interacting with nascent markets.
• Long/short theses on nations like Nigeria, Guinea, and more.
• Elite theory, elite coordination.
• Mining, sovereign wealth funds, and philosophies of capital reallocation.
• Urbanisation in Africa.
• Next generation industrialists on the African continent.

Alpha is working on a truly exciting and generationally important set of ventures. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Resources of note:

• The Tycoons; How Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and JP Morgan Invented The American Supereconomy. by Charles Morris
• Gambling on Development by Stephan Dercon.
• Alpha's Philosophical Writings.
• Temple Cities Announcement.
• The Prepared (cool blog on supply chains and industrialisation).