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 …
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: Faith Wanja The problem with relying on other countries For a long time, the story of medicine across the continent has been defined by a cycle of ordering and waiting. Africa currently faces 25% of the global health …
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 …
Why It Matters Kenya’s renewed plan to extend its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Naivasha to the Malaba border is reshaping the role of infrastructure in East Africa, from a traditional development tool into a powerful instrument of diplomacy and …
By Muoki Musila Hope in the Skies, but will it land? In a post intended to ridicule Africa’s dysfunctional air transport sector on Africa Day, Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo shared a Kenya Airways itinerary from Nairobi to Abidjan that …