No Free Ride: Uber’s African Retreat
First, “Uber” became a verb. Now, in parts of Africa, it is becoming past tense.
The company’s withdrawal from Nigeria and Uganda complicates one of competition policy’s favorite storylines: U.S. technology platforms enter, conquer, and never leave. That assumption has helped fuel a rush to import rules modeled on the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which imposes special obligations on the largest digital platforms. Yet African ride-hailing markets are not following the script.
Uber once seemed built for precisely that story. Born from a…
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