I have written on the New Security Agenda here and the need for African countries to conceptualize security on this basis that is also famously (in academia) known as Copenhagen School of Thought. I once argued that Tanzania should securitize education– when secondary failing rates were alarmingly high. Without wasting much words, the New Security […]
In March 2017, when the World Bank President visited Tanzania and Rwanda I was made sleepless by his tweets. They displayed serious different conceptualization of development strategy between Tanzania and Rwanda. My previous read on Alec Ross’ Industries of the Future had further exacerbated the insomnia. Well, this end week, Jack Ma,
Faith/Religion: a double edged sword in politics History has, repeatedly, proven the power of faith. Faith/religion, although sidelined for many years by Political Scientists, has never stopped exerting its muscles on national or international politics. The impact of such could be fatal
If someone wants to teach about the theory of Construction, I think the best book to start with would be “Imagining Serengeti”. This may not be
A prompt to pick up this book from the shelf of many was triggered by the President of Tanzania (Dr. John P. Magufuli) new policy and emphasis on industrialization. I have been battling to
31.8.2016 Dear Mr. President, Greetings Your Excellency! It is with great honor and humbleness that I am writing this letter to you. Thank you for reading it. Thank you for the work that you are doing for our beloved country, Tanzania. It is with great sacrifice that you have wholeheartedly given yourself to help Tanzanians […]
This book is a collection of 12 different stories. Short. Exciting. Leaving you on the traffic lights.
Most scholars, commentators, media analysts, and students have been terming Chinese economic and material success as a “miracle”. A miracle is something that cannot be explained. Indeed, the classical and conventional economic development models found it hard to explain the exponential Chinese economic rise. More so, guys who struggle even much more
Early this year, my former student from the University of Nottingham, Anthony Demetriou emailed me with information of a summit organized by a think tank, Legatum Institute, to be
As an African youth who has been educated and done research in the UK, I am disturbed with the apparent diminishing influence of the UK in the global sphere and specifically in Africa. It is disturbing me because having studied, researched, and taught in the UK, I have an unwavering admiration to its values and […]
