Benjamin Chemouni

Assistant Professor in Development Studies @UCLouvain_be African dev & politics esp. Burundi & Rwanda. Former Leverhulme ECFellow @Cambridge_Uni & PhD @LSE_ID

[Pritish Behuria @pritishbehuria]

Today, my book - The #PoliticalEconomy of #Rwanda's Rise - was published with @CambridgeUP . The free #openaccess is available here: https://t.co/MRsjnLGYng.
Hardback and paperback versions are available via the CUP website here: https://t.co/6jNtA4ppDJ.

[Benjamin Chemouni @BChemouni]

❌Africa Seminar "L'harmonie dans la rébellion" au #Burundi ANNULÉ
Suite à des circonstances imprévues, nous sommes malheureusement dans l’obligation d’annuler l’Africa Seminar d’aujourd’hui À 17h. Nous nous excusons de la gêne occasionnée.

[Audrey Alejandro @AudreyAlejand]

🔥 New article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" published with @EuroJournIR
In openaccess: https://t.co/n26HKqGgU6

@LSEHealthPolicy
#Technique #malecircumcision #expertise #Weber #Foucault #Habermas #VMMC 1/

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.

🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @gatonievas
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🔗 https://t.co/kA1jeQiLOp

[Scotch @2_OZ]

Puis ce sera au tour de Depardieu, McFly et Carlito et enfin son excellence Mbappon

[Olivier Faure @faureolivier]

LFI accepte de ne pas entrer au Gvt, c’est un « coup de force » qui implique la censure de tout le NFP… Dès lors comment qualifier le pdt d’un groupe appartenant à une coalition qui a fait 8 points de moins que le #NFP et qui prétend continuer à gouverner ?

[Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier]

Emmanuel Macron se réfugie derrière le besoin de « stabilité ».

S’il savait combien de personnes ont au contraire très envie que ça change…

Besoin même !

Parce que sa politique abîme tant de monde et de choses…

Mais lui et toutes celles et ceux qu’il enrichit, c’est sûr, n’ont intérêt à rien d’autre que la stabilité

Et on comprend très bien pourquoi.

Et on ne le laissera pas faire.

Si voter ne suffit plus, on passera donc par la rue.

[Benjamin Chemouni @BChemouni]

Mon interview au @Le_Figaro sur l'élection présidentielle au #Rwanda et ce qu'elle signifie pour le pays 🇷🇼 #Kagame https://t.co/6dkaW17wSb

[Libération @libe]

Les dîners secrets de la macronie et du RN : notre enquête à la une de @Libe mercredi.

[Michel Mompontet @mompontet]

Le grand n’importe quoi ….
Cette candidate RN à Dijon ne me fait pas rire. Et les électeurs qui ont voté pour elle non plus. Si triste

[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

Delighted that @Africa_Conf wrote a feature piece on @BChemouni's and I new piece in @AfrAfJournal . We tackle the fiscal crisis generated by Rwanda’s energy boom, finding the remarkable zeal in power plant construction held the seeds for a future crisis.
https://t.co/yBSV2mgbjV

[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

Its been some journey – six years I believe – but glad we have stuck with it and thanks for those who helped along the way
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May be of interest: @pritishbehuria @sam_b_hickey @LaversTom @GoodfellowTom @IndrajitRoyYork @matthew_tyce @MCollord @S_de_Oliveira @York_IGDC @afr_pol

[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

Pyramidally centralized authoritarian power thus undermines expertise and critique in policymaking
This supports the concept of bureaucratic independence, the balance of political power between civil servants and political masters that such challenge and correcction
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[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

Critiques of overly-ambitious targets were blocked. A sprint to build power plants trumped the quality of contracts and construction of necessary tranimission lines to use the power plants. The result: economic transformation is undermined, despite later course correction
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[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

the negatives of highly concentrated political power in creating ‘Chernobyl problems’; an inability to speak truth to power and the unbridled pursuit of modernist ideology
The Rwandan energy boom illustrates this.
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[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

We do not dismiss the political settlement framework outright, or similar insights of others in the field like Kohli’s State Directed Development. In fact we use these theories in our research elsewhere. Rather we point out that the framework does not capture ...
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[Benjamin Chemouni @BChemouni]

@BarnabyJDye @AfrAfJournal Here is the link to our article: https://t.co/NSCJY8x9wt

[Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @BarnabyJDye]

New @AfrAfJournal with @BChemouni on Rwanda's flawed electricity boom. A case that provides a critique to nuance the political settlement framework and its assumption that centralized authoritarian power creates the best conditions for development
https://t.co/gzrULQyXpk

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[IOB - Institute of Development Policy @IOBUA]

📢 Conjonctures de l’Afrique centrale is now accepting abstracts for its 2024 edition. This publication offers a platform for the dissemination of research done in French and English in Central Africa.
👉 Submit your abstracts before May 5th, 2023: https://t.co/ZwqIUbbYC9

[Benjamin Chemouni @BChemouni]

Je serai demain lundi sur @RFI avec @NathalieAmar 8h15-9h heure 🇫🇷 pour discuter de la trajectoire du #Rwanda depuis le génocide. #Kwibuka30