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African Leaders and Free Lunches
The popular adage “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” kept crossing my mind in the run-up to the just concluded London Conference on Somalia. I wondered why a gathering focusing on a Sub Saharan...
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The BRICS Bank: an ‘Alternative’ to the Bretton-Woods Institutions?
Recently, the leaders of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – made a bold step in setting up an international development bank. They have agreed to raise $100 billion...
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Obama’s Africa Summit: Too Little, Too Late?
This is an op-ed I wrote for Aljazeera English, on the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Photo credit: White House photo gallery In 2013, I was in the audience at the Oxford Union for a taping of Al...
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“EITI was the Wrong Focus” and other Highlights of the Natural Resource...
Last week, I was at a conference organised by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), formerly Revenue Watch Institute, on the challenges and opportunities presented by falling commodity...
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Is the Idea of ‘African Solutions’ too limiting in a Globalised Economy?
Note: I paraphrased the title of this blog post from this tweet by Professor Calestous Juma. The question was prompted by a recent statement by Bob Collymore, the CEO of Safaricom, one of Africa’s...
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China and Global Development: Different Perspectives on Africa
On 29 February 2016, I participated in a panel discussion on the above subject, ‘China and Global Development: Different Perspectives on Africa’. This was at the School of Public Policy, Central...
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