Sub-Saharan Africa

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Africa in Focus

Bureaucratic commitment to local government service: Lessons from Zambia

Danielle Resnick and Gilbert Siame

Friday, July 29, 2022

primary school student in Sierra Leone classroom

Education Plus Development

Radical inclusion means teaching children in a language they understand 

Chernor Bah

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

A farm worker gestures as he walks between rows of vegetables at a farm in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg May 13, 2015. Southern Africa faces possible food shortages over the next few months due to a severe drought in the 'maize belt' of South Africa, where a lack of rain had caused crop failure rates of over 50 percent, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. In South Africa, the WFP said maize production was estimated to have dropped by a third compared with last year, putting it on track for a harvest of 9.665 million tonnes, its worst in eight years. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

TechStream

Overcoming the barriers to technology adoption on African farms

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

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Events

Assessing UN state-building in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

The 2022 Kenyan elections

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

POSTPONED: The CFA franc zone: Economic development and the post-COVID recovery

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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Related Books

Formal and Informal Enterprises in Francophone Africa: Moving Toward a Vibrant Private Sector

Edited by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Stephen S. Golub, and Fatou Gueye

2020

Leave No One Behind

Edited by Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno

2019

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

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Experts

Louise Fox

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

@LouiseFox_econ

Landry Signé

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Professor and Managing Director - Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

Distinguished Fellow - Stanford University

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Witney Schneidman

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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Multimedia

Activists from the social justice centres working group chant during a demonstration asking the government to lower costs of living, especially on food prices, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Podcast Episode

African Youth Survey reveals sustained optimism and shifting priorities

Ivor Ichikowitz and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Podcast Episode

Pursuing an education “Against All Odds”

Betty Ogiel Rubanga and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

A newly commissioned Nigerian railway is seen Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station in Ebutemeta, Lagos, Nigeria, on June 10, 2021. President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited Lagos for the inauguration of the 157-kilometer Lagos-Ibadan standard rail project at the Mobolaji Johnson railway station in Ebutte Metta. The Construction which started in March 2017, and test-running commenced in December 2020. The Ebute Metta Station, known as the Mobolaji Johnson Station, is the largest railway station in West Africa with a holding capacity of 6000 passengers A statement from the precedential aide ''''Femi Adesina''. ''President Buhari is committed to developing a modern national railway network that will connect every part of Nigeria, and promote trade, travel, tourism, commerce and national integration.'' (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Podcast Episode

Re-approaching Africa’s economic integration agenda

Aloysius Uche Ordu and Julius Kiiza

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

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More on Sub-Saharan Africa

Abidjan & San Pedro,Ivory Coast, 15,May,2007. Ro-Ro is a specialized vessel for transporting vehicles and containers in the W/Africa ports.

African Growth and Opportunity Act: Program usage, trends, and sectoral highlights

Landry Signé

Monday, August 1, 2022

Ibrahima Soumare, 47, a supporter of Senegal's main opposition coalition Yewwi Askan Wi holds signs glued on pot lids during a protest over the disqualification of their national list for the July 31 legislative election in Dakar, Senegal, June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Senegal’s democratic backsliding is a threat to African democracy

Danielle Resnick

Friday, July 29, 2022

Organizational commitment in local government bureaucracies: The case of Zambia

Danielle Resnick

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Russia’s narratives about its invasion of Ukraine are lingering in Africa

Mary Blankenship and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Monday, June 27, 2022

Are Africa’s children our last hope to save us from demographic decline?

Wolfgang Fengler

Thursday, June 23, 2022

vibrant coral reef with various species of fish and sea creatures

The Great Blue Wall Initiative: At the nexus of climate change, nature conservation, and the blue economy

Nassim Oulmane and Thomas Sberna

Thursday, June 23, 2022

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Reports

Assessing UN state-building in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond

The 2022 Kenyan elections

POSTPONED: The CFA franc zone: Economic development and the post-COVID recovery

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Professor and Managing Director - Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

Distinguished Fellow - Stanford University

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative