On the African State

There's a scene in the fourth season of Succession, an HBO TV show, where the protagonist--Logan Roy, tells his would-be heirs that they "are not serious people." It'

Human habitats

Some 10,000 years ago cities emerged in the Fertile Crescent. Around that same time, human beings begun toying with a new technology--agriculture. We often don't think of agriculture as a

Live long; don't die at all

My previous essay explored why some organisations die slowly or not at all. One outcome of that exploration was the identification of organisational culture as the primary driving force for institutional longevity. Strong,