Michel Dynes is an independent Africa analyst who has written extensively across the African economic and political landscape for a range of clients from AngloGold Ashanti to the Kenyan Government, and from Oxford Analytica to the US insurance giant The Starr Group. Areas of specialisation include the four core infrastructure sectors – energy, telecoms, transport (ports, railways, roads, development corridors) and water. Mining in key jurisdictions such as South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, Guinea, Ghana and Tanzania. Hydrocarbons in Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya and Uganda. Other subjects and sectors covered include the Nigerian banking crisis, prospects for solar power, the rise of the African retail sector the growth of private equity, free trade zones, AML, sovereign asset theft , the threat of resurgent resource nationalism in the resource sector, and the new role of China.