Uwazi Talks

In February 2021, IMF advanced a loan worth $2.4 billion to Kenya. This loan was given with common neoliberal conditionalities such as increase in taxes, spending cuts and reorganization of state-owned enterprises. I outline a brief history of IMF's neoliberal policies, first known as structural adjustment policies, and second rebranded to poverty reduction strategy papers.

What does the exit of Donald Trump and Joe Biden's presidency mean for Africa? More aid, vaccine diplomacy, supporting AfCFTA and intensification of the geopolitics of the 5G internet.

The race for the COVID-19 vaccine is heating up. But how prepared are governments across Africa?

"You can kill revolutionaries but you can't kill their ideas". By Thomas Sankara. 33 years after his death, Sankara's ideas are a constant feature in Africa's sociopolitical and economic discourse.

As the race for the COVID-19 vaccine heats up, political forces will shape its availability in Africa and geopolitical relations with foreign states.

Recently, a process was initiated to transfer the Kenya Meat Commission from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation to the Ministry of Defence. Is this further militarization of civilian institutions in Kenya?