By Muoki Musila Crackdown on the Most Vulnerable On September 2, President William Ruto stood before Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise traders at State House and delivered an ultimatum that foreign hawkers and small shop owners …
By:Musila Muoki Standards Disabling Intra-Africa Trade As Africa’s standards chiefs meet in Mombasa to sell the continent on “One Certificate,” the real obstacle to a single African market isn’t a missing standard but a missing trust architecture that only …
By Musila Muoki Makola is not in Lomé or Ouagadougou I was hunting for a stall in Makola, Accra’s sprawling, chaotic, and magnificent open-air market, when I stopped to ask a trader for directions, thanks to my mother’s appetite …
By Muoki Musila “We Have no Money” Excuse Recently, I had argued that Africa’s development model has a sequencing problem where we sent presidents to Beijing, Baku, and Davos to hunt for capital before considering a count of …
By Muoki Musila As protests disrupted transport systems across Kenya over rising fuel prices, President William Ruto was in Baku, Azerbaijan pursuing long-term productive capital, an attribute rarely prioritized in Africa with the right ambition and urgency. Ruto looked to …
By Musila Muoki Enthusiasm is Not Industrial Policy In 2024, I wrote that Africa had yet to scratch the surface of its pharmaceutical potential in response to a crisis that is both a health issue and a structural economic …
By: Muoki Musila Not much beyond Yesterday’s “Manifestos” At the launch of Manifesto Yetu, a political statement and a social contract between the Kenyan youth and those that seek to lead them, one would have been optimistic that the age …
A speech by Peter Gakunu , former Executive Director of the IMF, Economic Secretary & Director of Planning, Senior Advisor Office of the President Kenya Government and Director ACP Group at the 4th Annual KESA National Economics debate at …
With Donald Trump’s administration allowing a self-imposed trade deadline to expire on August 1st, a cascading effect of new tariffs was released on a list of 69 countries. The decision, part of “America First” Trade Reset was intended to punish what …
By Muoki Musila It’s a sovereignty issue… When I questioned whether the Pan-African Payment and Settlement Systems (PAPSS) could survive the looming digital currency wars, I had no idea that it would roar back with a double-barreled announcement. The intra-African …