Development

No. 162: 3AMReads: Akon Going Public | Robots Mess Up Development Formula | Don’t Sleep on Halal Tourism

Jun 6, 2017

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Africa, Akon, Andela, Artifical Intelligence, Axios, Bloomberg, Development, Muslim, quartz, Robots

Bloomberg: Star Rapper Akon Mulls IPO of Chinese-Funded African Solar Unit I was surprised to see this news. Akon’s Lighting Africa project has gotten a good bit of media attention over the past several years. Perhaps, as time goes by, more information about the company’s financials will come out. I think a lot of people…
No. 31: Here’s My Issue with the IMF/World Bank Africa Rising Seminar

Apr 8, 2014

Africa, Economics

Africans, agriculture, Development, Economics, GDP, growth, IMF, Inclusive Growth, Mining, Panelists, Technology, World Bank

When I first saw, the agenda for the Africa Rising seminar at this year’s IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, I posted a tweet: There's a peculiarity in the agenda for IMF/World Bank Spring Meeting seminar on "Africa Rising." What is it? http://t.co/wiuvyow1We — KWAME (@KwameSomPimpong) April 7, 2014 Probably not the wisest thing to not provide any…