African traffic growth and predictions for the future

This post details Cloudflare's expansion of its datacenter presence in Africa, highlighting the growth of Internet usage on the continent and the impact of localized datacenters on latency and throughput. It analyzes traffic growth patterns in specific African countries after datacenter turn-ups, explains the relationship between latency and TCP throughput, and discusses inter-African routing challenges, often involving backhauling traffic through Europe. The post also visualizes latencies from Europe to African countries and analyzes common routing paths to Cloudflare datacenters, noting language and content provider biases. Finally, it briefly touches on the location of popular content providers within Africa.