Nairobi, July 19 -- Last year, I joined a group of East African executives for a study visit to the Dangote Oil Refinery in the port town of Lekki, Nigeria. I wrote about it here and waxed lyrical about how the audacious $20 billion largest single-train refinery in the world was making global waves. We took another group last week.

It has been 16 weeks since the start of the Middle East war that led to the Strait of Hormuz closure and the subsequent massive disruption to the global oil supply chain. Yet no one is talking about how that disruption is being mitigated by a legit 100 percent African solution.

There is a delicious, almost poetic irony currently unfolding on the Atlantic coastline. For decades, Nigeria, a country practically ...