Sitemap - 2025 - An Africanist Perspective

Electrifying African firms for growth and development

There will be no economic takeoff in Africa without lots of large (private sector) firms

On Africa’s “arbitrary” borders and their alleged impacts

How Ethiopia avoided colonization in the late 19th century but then lagged behind in the 20th century

A Historical Political Economy of Kenya

How Kenya’s opposition can defeat President William Ruto in 2027

Reelecting William Samoei Ruto

On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency

How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector?

What does the rise and decline of STEM enrollment in Kenyan universities tell us about the Kenyan economy?

How to (more reliably) electrify Africa for economic growth and development

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya

America’s tariff wars present no upside opportunities for African economies

The problem of organizing weak states; and why Africa needs a new model of Pan-Africanism

How reflexive catastrophizing inhibits policy imagination in African states

African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency

What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm?

On American aid cuts/disruptions

What explains the “ambition gap” among Africa’s (ruling) elites?

International recognition for Somaliland should be conditioned on concrete economic and political reforms

Africa in 2025