At the edge of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, a Nigerian billionaire's ambition to reshape East Africa's energy landscape is taking institutional form: Dangote Group has engaged Engineers India Limited to manage the engineering of a planned 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery at Lamu Port, a project valued at up to $16 billion. The contract, worth $450 million, signals serious intent, yet the deeper architecture of the venture — financing, permits, crude supply, and export markets — remains unbuilt. History suggests that the distance between a groundbreaking ceremony and a functioning refinery is mea