In the humid heart of Lagos, Canada and one of West Africa's most consequential telecommunications companies sat across a boardroom table and asked a shared question: what might we build together? The visit by Canada's High Commission to MTN Nigeria's Ikoyi headquarters was less a diplomatic courtesy than a deliberate act of economic repositioning — Canada recalibrating its Africa strategy toward commercial partnership, and MTN Nigeria, at 25 years old, looking beyond its traditional horizons toward North America, Europe, and Asia. No deal was signed, but the conversation itself was the signal