Africa continues to face challenges with regards to its telecoms and electricity networks. Richard Metcalf and Oliver Stacey explore the headway being made by various projects and the opportunities for lawyers

Networking: everyone’s at it. Law firms are busy building networks around the world. Lawyers are encouraged to build networks among their contacts as part of their career development. Hollywood has decided that there is money to be made from The Social Network. And Africa is very much part of this trend, with networking on the continent throwing up considerable opportunities for lawyers.