<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Manufacturing on Kandaka</title><link>https://kandaka.com/tags/manufacturing/</link><description>Recent content in Manufacturing on Kandaka</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://kandaka.com/tags/manufacturing/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Semiconductor Manufacturing: Sudan's Longest Road and Why It Still Matters</title><link>https://kandaka.com/ideas/semiconductor-sudan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/ideas/semiconductor-sudan/</guid><description>Every solar inverter, mobile phone, and agricultural sensor in Sudan contains chips made elsewhere. Semiconductor fabrication is among the hardest industries to build — but the question of how Sudan enters the value chain is not whether to start, but where.</description></item><item><title>The Ladder Sudan Was Never Allowed to Climb: A Century of Deliberate Non-Industrialisation</title><link>https://kandaka.com/ideas/ladder-sudan-never-allowed-to-climb/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/ideas/ladder-sudan-never-allowed-to-climb/</guid><description>Britain deliberately prevented Sudanese industrialisation. Every post-independence plan has been aborted — by coups, by IMF conditionality, by war. The Industrial Location Analysis shows manufacturing was locked into Khartoum by colonial design. This is not bad luck. It is documented policy.</description></item><item><title>Industrial Location Analysis of Sudan</title><link>https://kandaka.com/development/industrial-location-analysis-sudan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/development/industrial-location-analysis-sudan/</guid><description>The most systematic study of Sudan&amp;#39;s manufacturing geography from the colonial period through 1980. Shows that deliberate non-industrialisation policies under British rule concentrated manufacturing in Khartoum and created regional inequalities that independence never corrected.</description></item></channel></rss>