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African Arc

Question

What is the gap between how Africa is reported on and where it's actually heading?

Exploration

A structural editorial lens that puts long-term development data alongside news coverage — so you can see whether what's being reported maps to where a country is actually heading.

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African Arc — desktop view

Changelog

Added a coverage skew score for each country

Each country now shows a skew score — a single number that captures how far its media coverage drifts from where structural data says it's actually heading. A high score means the reporting and the fundamentals are pointing in different directions. It's the core metric the project was built around, now visible in the interface.

Renamed to African Arc

Updated the project name from Africa-Arc to African Arc across all config and documentation. The original was a placeholder — this is what it was always meant to be called.