This is the second of a two-part series that assesses the historical progress of the Pan-African movement and considers the global political economy, the relevance of...
It is evident that only an investment of this type – in capital, in human resources and in qualified training – can allow the United States...
The GMO ban in Kenya was a pre-requisite for the agricultural component of the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership to be realized but it does...
There are strong echoes across Africa of the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The reappearance of recession, debt and structural adjustment to the...
Small farmers are the world’s primary food suppliers. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates.
Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi died in 1984, either poisoned or by suicide. His ideas about the international monetary system and the CFA franc are worth...
The spread of democracy and the application of economic policies championed by Western and foreign powers has not led to economic and political development that benefits...
Despite cosmetic rebranding, the World Bank continues its decades-long work of pushing power into the hands of private capital. Sean Taylor explains how the Covid-19 response...
A combination of factors will force some of the most consequential choices our hardened elite have ever made and what they do now will determine what...
In the end, it is up to Kenyans to hold their government accountable for the hardships it created. There is only so much the IMF can...
Stabilisation, liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation: what do these four pillars of structural adjustment augur for Kenya’s beleaguered public health sector?
The Jubilee government would have us believe that the country is economically healthy but the reality is that the IMF has come in precisely because Kenya...