Mick Moore at Africa Research Institute looks into the different tax regimes of anglophone and francophone countries in Africa: Some tax authorities have been quite innovative in their efforts to capture revenue in the informal economy.…
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Nick Montgomery on Canada’s denial of the ‘colonial’ and ‘settler’ tags
October 21, 2013 International DevelopmentThe more I come to Canada, the more I hear and sympathize with the plight of the First Nations. The hypocrisy is palpable both in Canada’s international development practices and right here within its borders. Denying…
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Wronging Rights has WTF Fridays, Africa as a Country has The Bullshit Files, so I think reviving my long ago abandoned #AfriFAIL is the only option possible. The reason that I couldn’t resist doing this is…
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The son of a Maasai warrior takes down the Warrior Princess author, requests a public apology from Mindy Budgor. Disrespecting integrity of one of Africa’s greatest people is unacceptable. Soiling the institution of Maasai warriorhood by claiming…
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The MI prize is the definition of wagging a stick in front of dying dogs instead of throwing it at the puppies nipping at your heels. For the fourth time in five years, a prestigious multimillion-dollar…
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Grand Challenges Canada | Rising Stars Application Microsite.…
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Ann Daramola – An Open Letter To African Writers, Artists and Creators of the 21st Century: There is, however, a fundamental problem with striving to ‘rebrand Africa’. For the sake of this argument, in a contemporary context,…
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On Sunday I arrived in New York at Social Good Summit for my on-stage chat with firebrand serial social entrepreneur, Magatte Wade. Needless to say, even though I knew of her, of her passion, of her…
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The Verge is continuing to impress with its breadth of coverage, going way beyond its myopic wheelhouse of posts about gadgets. Land grabbing in Africa for bio fuels is about as far as one can get…
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Just published this morning, my first op-ed for SciDev.net about African-led development of the continent, powered by technology. The musician and activist Bono and development academics such as Bill Easterly and Paul Collier are no longer…
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