The musings of "... an observing communicator with a penchant for indignation"

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THE PRESIDENT WHO WON, BUT HAS NOT YET CONVINCED

The Congolese presidency has grown stronger. The Congolese state has not yet become reliable enough for the people who need it most.

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
40 minutes

KENYA’S FUEL SHOCK: IRAN OR A COUNTRY TOO FRAGILE TO ABSORB IT?

Kenya was so badly prepared to absorb the blow without improvisation, reversal, and repression. That question leads somewhere the government does not want to go: inward.

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
23 minutes

FROM HEADLINE SHOCK TO HOUSEHOLD BURDEN

Fuel affordability, price pass-through, and media narratives in Africa Revised working paper based on publicly available cross-country fuel-price, pricing-policy, and wage data

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
292 minutes

COBALT FOR CLINICS

For twenty years, American aid quietly underwrote large parts of Africa’s public health systems ...Now that system is being dismantled.

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
24 minutes

THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA BEGINS IN CONGO

Recent legal challenges by Congolese civil society against mineral agreements with foreign firms underscore how contested mineral deals have become.

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
18 minutes

THE ARCHIVE, THE ALGORITHM, AND THE NEW SCRAMBLE

Algorithms promise to find the next copper belt from old surveys, the strategic asset is not a concession or the ore. It is the map.

Johan Verheyden Johan Verheyden
16 minutes