“The movement was much bigger than just the 2024 Finance Bill [Kenya]. Once the bill is passed in whatever form it’s passed in, the movement will continue, and importantly, not be limited to what’s happening in the halls of Parliament. The movement was about building a better life for Kenyans in Kenya…. The Sudanese speakers of our last teach-in episode showed us the many ways that these small, community-based voluntary actions (many of which don’t look “revolutionary” in themselves) were indeed revolution.… More
governance
Event: Book launch
Below, pictures from the the newspaper article that covered the event (The Citizen (Tanzania), Tuesday, September 3, 2019)
(article about the book launch, right column)
Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Friend or Foe?
The business of national economic development is always multi-faceted with blurry lines, with politics, economics, technology and ecology interacting all the time. There is even a peculiar additional complexity when we deal with strategic national resources such as water. This complexity amplifies when there are other stakeholders to the same resource but outside the national borders. Such, it seems, is the story of the recent Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.… More