Who cares about African heritage?
While the world debates restitution, Africa’s own heritage institutions are collapsing. The question is no longer who took our past, but who is keeping it alive.
infrastructure
The price of plugging in
Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks.
Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
Reading List: Faeeza Ballim
What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?
Something for nothing
As coal is dying we must be prepared to absorb the transferable infrastructure of this industry and re-tool it for use in the emerging economy.
The business of Black death
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
The Nigerian electricity story
The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.
By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.