This is going to be really good!

Mara Kardas-Nelson's first book is a critical global history of microfinance.

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In the new year, we should leave old baggage behind.

But the specious argument in this article with its offensive title, “The world economy’s biggest problem is Africa” reminiscent of The Economist’s “the Hopeless Continent”, needs to be tackled 🧵 1/
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My first German language publication!

Colleagues, any recommendations for podcasts on economic governance in Africa? Anything of FDIs, China in Africa, regional economic integration? Found a few on BBC Focus on Africa and Africa Daily but any others?

Sure, the article took two years, three desk rejections, and four revise and resubmits, but at least eleven people read it

📢Dept of Econ Prof. Michael McMahon highlights that Rishi Sunak's migration laws may worsen skill shortages and cause price inflation in some sectors. Read more on the impact of immigration policies on the economy here: shorturl.at/kmnr5 #MigrationLaws #Inflation #Research

Wanted: wealthy patron to fund intellectual pursuits

Offering: articles completely different from initial abstract, six months later than promised

Me every time *sigh*

Cholera is wreaking havoc in several parts of Africa, with Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, under a state of emergency following a deadly outbreak. Why are so many African countries struggling to contain the disease?

#AfricaDaily ’s Alan Kasujja has more 🔗 bbc.in/3T3dHjQ

Does anyone have a free link to a documentary called 'When China Met Africa' for educational purposes only? I want to add it to the reading list of the economic governance lecture

Sci Hub is a 'pirate' website with 88M research papers freely available.

Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer.

Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles.

PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉

🥁📢My book is out now with Palgrave Macmillan.
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Thanks to family & friends for their support! 🙏
Some pretty wise people read the manuscript & said pretty kind things about it. 👇🧵Politikwissenschaft Uni Freiburg DeColoniality Now Second Cold War Observatory Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk The China-Global South Project

Excellent analysis of 🇿🇦 White Paper on Citizenship: The Conversation

'What is most unsettling about the paper is how the government invents its own social reality, and then offers vague and poorly considered proposals to solve nonexistent problems.'

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My book, Party Politics and Populism in Zambia, will soon be available for pre-order on the link below. Published by James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, the monograph is both a political history of modern #Zambia and an accurate biography of Michael Sata that illustrates…

Loved discovering some more authors from #Zambia today. One of my favourite discoveries was this book on entrepreneurship for children by Dumisani Lingamangali Ncube. He’s also written a companion for parents.

Horrifying