9 min read. If knowledge and human capital are the engines of economic growth, what is the role of the foreign investment and infrastructure edifices that...
8 min read. The Jubilee administration gambled on mega-infrastructure projects to expand the economy. It has borrowed heavily to finance them. Over the past five years,...
8 min read. Recently released Treasury figures paint a frightening picture: not only is the government broke and struggling with declining revenues, it is now spending...
9 min read. Why marijuana remains illegal (in most of Africa) and tobacco legal speaks volumes about the contradictions of capitalism. Why native enterprises remain ‘informal’...
9 min read. The Belt and Road Initiative, China’s ambitious attempt to create a global infrastructure corridor spanning 65 countries and connecting 60 percent of the...
8 min read. For the African bourgeoisie, the problem has always been subverting the civic sphere to feed the primordial sphere - the realm of the...
9 min read. In the beginning was a fiction - that the Chinese railway would freight 22 million tonnes a year, and in so doing, replace...
9 min read. With business interests in the heart of the Kenyan economy, how has Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency benefited The Family? Has Kenya benefited from the...
9 min read. The arrival of reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, may have only given the ruling EPRDF a stay of execution. At the heart...
8 min read. South East Asia’s Tiger economies have long triggered questions about why and how Kenya was left behind in the post-colonial maendeleo race. Instructively,...
