Development Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/development/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:50:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Development Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/development/ 32 32 67616479 Mark Carney and the new power calculation, where does Africa stand? https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:50:24 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573920 Mark Carney’s Davos speech won Western applause as bold truth: the global order has ruptured. Yet the Global South has shouted the same critique for decades—only to be ignored or punished. The real divide? Whose voice gets the standing ovation. The applause reveals not a breakthrough in global thinking, but the persistence of a deeply unequal system of voice, legitimacy, and power.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/feed/ 0 573920 Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Verdict — Three Cases, One Stool, and a Choice We Cannot Avoid https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/singapore-to-be-or-not-to-be-kenya-the-verdict/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/singapore-to-be-or-not-to-be-kenya-the-verdict/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:13:17 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573913 In Part One, we traced how Kenya’s own Tom Mboya had articulated a vision almost identical to Singapore’s — and how that vision was assassinated on Government Road in 1969 and institutionally buried by the Ndegwa Commission in 1972. In Part Two, we examined the machinery Singapore built: the Carrot of competitive pay and the CPF, and the Stick of the Presumption of Corruption, the Unexplained Wealth clause, and the CPIB. Today, we see what happens when that machinery meets real, powerful people who expect to be the exception. And then we answer the question.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/singapore-to-be-or-not-to-be-kenya-the-verdict/feed/ 0 573913 Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Carrot, the Stick, and the Apex Predator | Part 2 https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-carrot-the-stick-and-the-apex-predator/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-carrot-the-stick-and-the-apex-predator/?noamp=mobile#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:17:50 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573901 Singapore built its anti-corruption success by engineering honesty as the rational choice—through ironclad anti-corruption laws, fearsome enforcement by an independent CPIB, and terrifying consequences that crush graft without mercy. Kenya’s own Tom Mboya had articulated a remarkably similar vision in 1965. But, are Kenyans ready for unbreakable accountability, where no political interference, religious connections or kingpin ties can stop a probe once it has started?

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-carrot-the-stick-and-the-apex-predator/feed/ 1 573901 On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/on-the-kenyan-economy-under-william-rutos-presidency/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/on-the-kenyan-economy-under-william-rutos-presidency/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:42:34 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573754 Still muddling through despite the government’s best efforts

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/on-the-kenyan-economy-under-william-rutos-presidency/feed/ 0 573754 Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/straight-talk-on-african-elites-complacency-the-case-of-kenya/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/straight-talk-on-african-elites-complacency-the-case-of-kenya/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 10:25:38 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573698 Figuring out how to get things done is a major constraint to African development.

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