1906reblabs/aiw-african-lens

AI Weekly Intelligence – Africa Edition Weekly curated briefing on AI policy, infrastructure, and market signals across 54 African nations. Edition #AIW. # AIW African Lens Monthly Intelligence Review **Institutional-grade intelligence on Africa's AI stack.** Published the last Wednesday of every month at 06:00 SAST. This repository contains the editorial pipeline, build system, and published archive for AIW African Lens. As of the transition date, the publication has moved from a weekly cadence (Volume I, AIW-026-01 through AIW-026-13) to a monthly format (Volume II, beginning AIW-2026-07) with a substantially deepened eleven-section issue structure. See `MIGRATION_NOTES_weekly_to_monthly.md` for the full transition record. ## What This Publication Is A monthly intelligence review tracking AI policy, infrastructure, capital, research, and geopolitics across all 54 African Union member states, targeting investors, policymakers, technology executives, researchers, and founders. Benchmarked editorially against Bloomberg Intelligence, MIT Technology Review, Stratechery, McKinsey Technology Trends, SemiAnalysis, and RAND — see `SKILL_monthly_editorial_architecture.md` for the full rationale and section-by-section model mapping. ## Issue Structure (Volume II) 1. Editor's Thesis 2. Executive Brief 3. Signals & Metrics 4. Deep Research Essays (1–2) 5. Engineering Frontier 6. Commercial Strategy 7. Policy & Geopolitics 8. African Builders 9. Models, Papers & Repositories 10. Scenarios & Forecasts 11. Reading List Target length: ~10,600–16,200 words per issue. ## Repository Structure ``` content/ registry.yaml — master index of all editions (weekly archive + monthly going forward) issues/ aiw-026-NN-content.md — Volume I weekly content files (archived) aiw-2026-MM-content.md — Volume II monthly content files (new schema — see below) templates/ issue.j2 — HTML template (requires update for 11-section monthly schema — see below) index.j2 — archive/index page template afi_parser.py — YAML → template-context parser (requires field-process …