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Ending child poverty is a moral necessity0
- Development, Uganda
- 25.01.2017.
Donning a tired T-shirt that has since lost its original colour and shape – Kutosi, a 5-year-old boy in Bunamwani village, Mbale district wears a sweet, innocent face. He is one of the 3.7 million children in Uganda below five years of age living in poverty. This is half of the under-five population in the
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Innovation past mentality – Can we achieve that?0
- Africa, Development, Economy
- 18.01.2017.
Last night, I got home with an interesting Uber driver. After calling him about 5 times trying to direct him (yes, Ugandan Uber drivers and use of Google Maps are like oil and water. They just don’t connect), he found where I was. And guess what he had a passenger. This was a lady with
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How America Became An African Country0
- Africa, Democracy, Development, Diplomacy
- 06.12.2016.
This article was first published in the Washington Post Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and host of The Daily Show, a popular late-night news satire and talk show in the US, once described Donald Trump as America’s first African President. In fact, Americans could do worse than look to the continent in general, and
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Magufuli and The Politics Of Information Sharing0
- Africa, Democracy, Development, Tanzania
- 29.11.2016.
On November 20, 2016 the President of Tanzania, Dr. John Magufuli, sacked the chair of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Board, Bernard Mchomvu. According to The Citizen, the “sacking was announced through a State House statement, which, however, did not specify the reasons for his removal.” The ‘rumor mills’ in a city that was once
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Lessons For Kenya From The Trumpocalypse0
- Africa, Development, Elections, Governance, Kenya
- 15.11.2016.
To describe Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday’s US presidential election as a shocking upset is probably the understatement of the year. It is a seismic political upheaval which will rock, not just the American political system, but the entire edifice of Western liberal democracy, to its core. Coming just months after
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Populism, more than prejudice, is the problem with Trump0
- Development, Governance, Politics
- 14.11.2016.
This has been a pretty bad year. What we’ve lost includes Muhammad Ali, Prince, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, George Martin, Garry Shandling, Merle Haggard, Elie Wiesel, and Micheal Cimino. Oh, and, potentially, centrist politics – at least for a time. Brexit was at least in part a triumph of the political
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Sitting Down With The Devil – Talks with governments on ICT & Innovation0
- Africa, Democracy, Development, East Africa, Economics, Kenya
- 31.10.2016.
Kigali is impressive. From its clean streets and new buildings to the ubiquitous sense of safety and order, it is today hailed as a model for capital cities across the continent. Similarly hailed is the Rwandan government, which has transformed the country, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the 1994 genocide into the rising star of
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Zimbabwe Bond Note Panic, Class and Other Considerations0
We are all default economists in Zimbabwe now. Or at least some sort of experts in asset management and financial services. Mainly because of the collective national panic over the introduction of bond notes at the end of this month. It all begins with those that have savings of one form or the other. Whether
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Remembrance, Nostalgia, Recognition and Zimbabwe’s Circular Small Change Politics0
- Africa, Democracy, Development, Zimbabwe
- 30.08.2016.
There is a lot of political remembrance, nostalgia and contestation for recognition across Zimbabwe’s political spectrum. Occurring against the backdrop of the national heroes day holidays, political and military actors who participated in the liberation struggles as guerrillas have been laying claim to authenticity. Not so much remembering the pain of the struggle but claiming
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AU Passport, Yamoussoukro decision and Open Skies in Africa0
- Africa, Development, Travel
- 17.08.2016.
There has been a lot of conversation on the Africa Union (AU) Passport and what it has to offer Africans following its launch in Kigali in June. And for the African development practitioners – this is a huge step in the right direction. For the normal person that doesn’t see what the practitioners see –
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