Huge congratulations Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi 🇬🇭🇬🇧😷!!!

Statistic of the month.

Embraer explores options for aircraft to rival Airbus and Boeing via Financial Times on.ft.com/4aXlCpb

In DC African states are always last on the list and first off.

In the latest Good Authority (from the team that published TMC) podcast, I chat with Ken Opalo and kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social) about recent military coups and the rise of economic populism. I learned a lot from the conversation. Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts. goodauthority.org/news/dont-call…

Hear Ken Opalo & kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social) talk about democratic backsliding + resilience in the latest episode of our podcast, hosted by Erik Voeten. They draw on their recent Journal of Democracy essays and highlight what we learn from Afrobarometer data.

Listen/subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goo…

Maybe I have issues, but I can’t help notice how low key KKs 100 years anniversary has gone by. I was expecting something grand and historic — or maybe grand stuff happened I wasn’t just invited.

Exactly this. Which is difference between activism - which can be tribal - vs organizing which is all about persuasion and outreach beyond tribe. Most of what happens on this platform in politics is a kind of “activism”.

Happy 100th birthday to Kenneth Kaunda — a great Zambian, a great Pan-Africanist and a great human being!

Here he is speaking in 1986 at the memorial service of Samora Machel.

Great thread.

Large swaths of the State Dept will no longer attest that Israel 'is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law.'

For good reason.

I’m sure it will be a great disappointment for the advocates to learn that industrial policy is no magic bullet. Can you imagine the IMF summarizing another study as “central bank independence is no magic bullet…”.? That’s how your ideology shows.

Everything columlynch describes from this USAID memo is spot-on.

Famine likely underway; Israel still obstructing aid; ending famine requires a cease-fire.

Under Biden's own policy - and US law - US should already be limiting further military aid.

Indeed.

Climate change is real. But it doesn’t absolve leaders of misgovernance and under-investment in planning and infrastructure.

Just a note to say that in my circles, the whataboutist folks are not the one's showing up for Sudan (or the Congo), the one's showing up, donating, amplifying, organizing alongside Sudanese people are folks who are doing the same for Palestine.

What a world

(from Ken Opalo's excellent blog africanistperspective.com/p/the-museveni…)