Thandekile Moyo has as great piece over at Africa Portal on life after 40 years of independence in Zimbabwe. Ian Smith’s Rhodesia was swept into the dustbin of history on April 18th, 1980. Sinc...
https://kenopalo.com/2020/04/25/40-years-of-independence-in-zimbabwe/
It’s has been illuminating watching African governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some lessons I have gleaned from their responses. For those interested, the IMF has a neat sum...
https://kenopalo.com/2020/04/13/some-policy-lessons-from-covid-19/
This is from an excellent paper by Rumman Khan, Oliver Morrissey and Paul Mosley: Between 1990 and 2012, for most of the developing world, poverty has halved or more than halved except in sub-Sah...
This is from Bloomberg: Nigeria loses $19 billion annually, or about 5 percent of gross domestic product, from the delays, traffic, illegal charges and insecurity that are increasingly prevalent ...
https://kenopalo.com/2018/04/12/dangote-and-masiyiwa-on-doing-business-in-africa/
The full interview is worth watching. Mnangagwa has interesting theories of democratic transition (elite pacts, negotiated quietly, work) and Zimbabwe-UK relations (female British premiers are be...
https://kenopalo.com/2018/01/25/zimbabwe-president-emerson-mnangagwa-at-davos/
Zoe Samudzi provides some excellent answers to the question of why President Robert Mugabe has had such staying power despite the many political and economic upheavals that have beset Zimbawe sin...
https://kenopalo.com/2017/02/09/why-is-mugabe-still-in-power/
On life expectancy on the Continent: Malawi has led the way, with life expectancy at birth rising 42 per cent from 44.1 years in 2000 to 62.7 in 2014, according to data from the World Bank. Zambi...
https://kenopalo.com/2016/04/26/interesting-fact-of-the-month/
The FT reports: Firstly, he said it would create “a very simple, clear vision for Barclays” as a bank focused on its two core markets of the UK and US. Secondly, he explained that Barclays wa...
https://kenopalo.com/2016/03/03/why-is-barclays-exiting-its-africa-business/
The African Development Bank has made power generation its top priority (see list of power projects here). The US-led initiative, Power Africa, is focusing capital on some very big and interestin...
https://kenopalo.com/2016/01/19/powering-africa-into-the-next-decade/