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 Mboce Kariuki A $23 Billion Crime Wave Hiding in Plain Sight Wildlife smuggling is currently one of the world’s largest forms of illegal trade, trailing only arms, narcotics, and human trafficking, and generating as much as $23 billion a
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
Uhuru wa kiuchumi wa Tanzania upo katika hatua nyeti. Wakati nchi nyingine zinafungua mianya kwa masoko huru na ubunifu wa sekta binafsi, Tanzania imeelekea zaidi kwenye mfumo unaodhibitiwa na serikali. Hali hii inaonekana wazi katika Ripoti ya Uhuru wa Kiuchumi
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
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