I think that's part of what makes the headline surprising and interesting. Africa is vast and diverse, and I was surprised to read that there weren't supercomp

I think that's part of what makes the headline surprising and interesting. Africa is vast and diverse, and I was surprised to read that there weren't supercomputers in, say, Egypt or Nigeria. Unfortunately (or fortunately, rather) while the geographical terminology is correct, I'm not sure the technical terminology is. The Ars article (and the blog it was largely copied from) says there is "little to no capacity for cloud computing" (outside South Africa) which is not the same as "no supercomputers." I wouldn't expect an American to know this. You can't be serious.