We start this week’s newswrap celebrating Kenyan marathoners, highlighting recent arts and culture pieces in OkayAfrica, talking about elections in Mozambique, protests in Guinea, and this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics winners.
This week’s guest is economist Grieve Chelwa (@gchelwa), a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to his appointment at UCT, Dr. Chelwa was a post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University’s Center for African Studies (@AfricaHarvard), the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (@SaiparZambia), and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (@WitsWiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand. In addition to his scholarly work, he is a contributing editor to Africa Is A Country (@africasacountry). We talk about economics (including what it means to be a development economist), research and collaboration, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, and more.
Books, Links, & Articles
- “I didn’t let Boko Haram stop me from going to school.” by Aisha Mustapha
- Women and the on Boko War Haram by Hilary Matfess
- “Asa Releases Her Highly-Anticipated New Album, ‘Lucid.” by Damola Durosomo
- “Campaign shows that political tectonic plates are shifting in Mozambique.” by David Matsinhe
- “African governments need to fix their problematic relationship with data on their own countries.” by Yomi Kazeem
- “Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It.” by Morten Jerven
- “Economics has an Africa problem.” by Grieve Chelwa
- “Do beer and wine respond to price and tax changes in Vietnam? Evidence from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey.” by Grieve Chelwa, et al.
- Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt by Carlos Lopes
- The Depth of My Footprints by Ng’andu Peter Magande
- Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White by Guy Scott
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell