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Ha-Joon Chang in today's FT: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned."

[Wow] The Underground Atlas - "the first high-resolution maps to predict mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity at a 1 km2 resolution across the planet" spun.earth/underground-at…

"The reality is that reorganisation is a blunt instrument that tends to deliver far less than promised... Systems thinking is a really powerful tool for making wise spending decisions" bsg.ox.ac.uk/blog/how-gover…

The semiotics of sovereignty has replaced its practice. But language alone cannot govern. And symbols alone cannot reconstruct legitimacy africanarguments.org/2025/06/revolu…

Putting the British East India Company on trial, 425 years after its founding and 168 years after its dissolution in 1857, expands notions of intergenerational justice jonasstaal.nl/projects/the-b… William Dalrymple

94 million years of collectivism jonasstaal.nl/projects/94-mi…

A Black woman is elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the first time in 128 years. Writer Ana Maria Gonçalves is the woman who broke the ceiling to become an ‘immortal’ globalvoices.org/2025/07/25/a-b…

Innovation (mostly tech) signals in African parliaments modparl.substack.com/p/the-africa-e…

"The greatest opportunity of the 21st century is not to disrupt the old jobs of the West. It is to finally create the millions of jobs the rest of the world needs" restofworld.org/2025/ai-africa…

🌍 OSS powers €65–95B/year of EU GDP. Yet critical dependencies are often maintained by solo devs with zero pay. Let’s flip the script: fund them properly with a European Sovereign Tech Fund. Demand action now! eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

We published a report, with support from the WINGS #LiftUpPhilanthropy Fund, that maps the Philanthropy Support Ecosystems in seven South and Southeast Asian countries—India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Particularly focusing on

“Showing an organisation its map of services is like showing a budgie a mirror for the first time. They're like, 'Wait... I thought I was a dog” public.digital/pd-insights/bl…

Remodelling cabinet departments in South Africa pari.org.za/working-paper-…

We are proud to announce six community-led projects documenting, preserving, and revitalizing lesser-known Nigerian languages and dialects, as part of the 2025 NaijaVoices Language Heritage program cohort. Read our official announcement: lanfrica.com/blog/announcin… More often than

Contrary to expectations generated from Western democracies, Africans who are poorer and less educated tend to participate more in political & civic activities. Rural residents outperform urbanites when it comes to citizen engagement afrobarometer.org/feature/africa…

"Industrial policy operates within a global political economy shaped by power asymmetries and the subtle violence of the global monetary and financial system" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/indus…