Listen to this article. I read David McNair’s article, calling for “imagination to update the purposes, structures, and systems of outmoded institutions to make them fit for today’s world”, with much interest. In fact, I sat with this article for …
Al Kags Articles.
By Al Kags I. A Nation in the Mirror On the night of October 29th, as a curfew descended on Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, a familiar pattern unfolded: frightened elites invoked “security,” the internet slowed to a crawl, and …
A response to Ken Opalo’s call for stronger African international organisations Ken Opalo, an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (pictured) wrote one of the sharpest analyses I’ve seen on why African international organisations …
When I heard today that Raila Odinga had died, a silence settled across Kenya—not the silence of relief, not the silence of closure, but the silence of an unresolved conversation. Raila’s life never allowed closure. It demanded ongoing debate. There …
The well-intentioned grand strategies of sustainable development often commit a cardinal sin: they mistake the map for the territory. We frequently hear pronouncements from polished boardrooms and echo chambers of bureaucratic offices, yet the undeniable truth, often whispered but rarely …