African Countries Need Strong Development Banks – How They Can Push Back Against Narrative to Weaken Them

African Countries Need Strong Development Banks – How They Can Push Back Against Narrative to Weaken Them

A quiet but consequential contest is playing out in the global financial architecture. One that could determine Africa’s ability to finance its own development. In recent months, powerful voices from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Paris Club and US investment bank JP Morgan have questioned the preferred creditor status of African multilateral development finance…

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African Countries Need Strong Development Banks – How They Can Push Back Against Narrative to Weaken Them

Africa: Making a Case for Aid – Less Donor-Curated Visibility, More Redistribution of Narrative Power

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the…

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Africa: ‘Shift the Narrative’ On Suicide to Prevent Loss of 720,000 Lives Annually

Africa: ‘Shift the Narrative’ On Suicide to Prevent Loss of 720,000 Lives Annually

More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it. Now the head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for “shifting the narrative” on the issue “to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations.” Speaking on World Suicide Prevention Day, which is marked annually on 10 September,…

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ITWeb TV: Africa can shape its own AI narrative

ITWeb TV: Africa can shape its own AI narrative

In this episode of ITWeb TV, President Ntuli Hewlett Packard Enterprise SA MD, talks about how Africa can write its own narrative regarding investment in artificial intelligence (AI). He also emphasises the importance of AI ecosystems in Africa to enable the continent to benefit from this mega trend and spur job creation. #AI #HPE #AfricanUnion…

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