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The Columns
Our standing series — commentary, analysis, and profiles from our writers and contributors. Each column carries its own voice, its own beat, and its own argument about the African present
New article biweekly
Science, but Next Door
This column serves as window into the landscape of African science: what role it is playing, what role it is not playing, and what role it might play in the African future we dream of. It is an attempt to make African science more visible to itself—to discover who is working on what, and to help scientists, institutions and curious readers find one another and know one another more intimately than they ordinarily do.
The Convergence
A column about economics as the allocation of scarce resources among nations locked in infinite games with no arbitrator played out inside a coupled, nonlinear, reflexive, and shock-prone system that resists prediction. Its central question: how do weak and poor nations become wealthy amid that chaos?
Praxians
A collection of opinionated essays and articles pushing for the philosophy of Praxis and civilisational ambition in the African zeitgiest
Zeitgeist Shifters
A column on young Africans (16-38) who are breaking boundaries. Some are still in school. Others are a few years into careers or companies of their own. What they share is agency: they saw a gap and moved to fill it instead of waiting for permission or the "right time." Through conversations with them, we look at how they think, what drives them, and what their work says about where Africa is heading.