On this episode, Erik speaks with Michael Boulle - 

Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cape Town and Senior Researcher at the Cape Town-based consultancy - Change pathways. 

We discuss his latest paper - The Hazy Rise of Coal in Kenya: The actors, interests, and discursive contradictions shaping Kenya’s electricity future that is featured in Volume 56 of the Energy Research and Social Science Journal.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618307072

Recommendations: 

Michael: 

On Being with Krista Tippett - Binyavanga Wainaina - The Ethics of Aid: One Kenya’s Perspective 

Erik: 

1)    The China-Nepal Railway: high cost and hidden by Ramesh Bhushal 

2)    Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

Thanks to Jason MacRonald for his help in editing this episode 

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