The African Strategic State
My my prior essay, On the African State, explored how a lack of strategic consensus building among elites has hamstrung the ability of African countries to develop "developmental states" similar to
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'
Primer: real estate & finance
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with Stanbic Bank's
[https://www.stanbicbank.co.zm/] credit department about real estate and
finance. This essay is a summary of
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