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Book Review (1/26): Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison
A journey through Uganda’s stunted political development
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The international development community isn’t adapting fast enough to official aid cuts. That’s a big problem.
On the urgent need for a pivot to spending more time trying to supporting specific countries interested in boosting their state capacity; and catalyzing…
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Africa in 2026
The 11 trends/factors that will shape African affairs in 2026
Jan 8
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On American aid cuts/disruptions
Feb 5, 2025
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What explains the “ambition gap” among Africa’s (ruling) elites?
Jan 27, 2025
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Kenyan Protests, Part One: The political education of President William Ruto
Jul 2, 2024
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The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid)
Oct 2, 2025
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African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency
Mar 2, 2025
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On Africa’s “arbitrary” borders and their alleged impacts
Aug 14, 2025
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2025: Year in Review
Political and economic divergence on the Continent continues apace
Jan 1
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Book Review (12/25): The Second Emancipation
Explorations in African leadership
Dec 20, 2025
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Firms or Families? Another installment in the Mission 300 electrification debate
On the politics and logics of policy tradeoffs
Dec 8, 2025
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Raila Amolo Odinga
The man whose political career defined Kenya’s multiparty politics
Oct 15, 2025
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The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid)
You can't have nice things without strategic independence and policy autonomy
Oct 2, 2025
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The most unlikely degrowthers
On why the World Bank and other multilaterals should recalibrate their climate projects in low-income countries
Sep 18, 2025
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Electrifying African firms for growth and development
On the urgent need to rethink the core goals of Mission 300
Sep 8, 2025
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