david pilling

FT Africa Editor. One of Time’s 7.7bn most important people. Author: The Growth Delusion; Bending Adversity. Asia & Africa 'expert'. Speaker

[david pilling @davidpilling]

Rwanda, by making its own clothes, is doing what we pretend we want of poor nations: to wean themselves off charity
https://t.co/REuVQ91LcP

[alain servais @aservais1]

🤬 Donald Trump reboots foreign aid with new ‘America First’ strategy. After gutting USAID, Washington is striking transactional money-for-data deals that some critics liken to ‘recolonisation’. By @davidpilling #PayWall https://t.co/YPD9bYUP9o via @ft

[Kurtis Lockhart @kurtislockhart]

.@AfricaUrbanLab Senior Fellow, @JoeStudwell, talks to @SoumayaKeynes on the @FT’s The Economics Show about his book How Africa Works 🌆🌆

[Magdalena Miecznicka @miecznicka]

What a writer he is. And what a strange exile story. Outsider Everywhere — Witold Gombrowicz’s exile in Argentina https://t.co/7lpAeYZA1c via @ft

[david pilling @davidpilling]

Hard to get away from Elon. This is in the Mahama refugee camp on the Rwanda-Tanzania border

[Qaanitah Hunter @QaanitahHunter]

I’m trying to explain to a foreigner in Arabic what happened with Phala Phala. They are floored. On Christmas Day in 2019, a Sudanese tourists was visiting South Africa and casually wanted to buy a buffalo. He then pays $580 000 cash. That money gets put under a couch.

[david pilling @davidpilling]

That’s quite a good citation when you come to think of it

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

NIGERIAN BILLIONAIRE Aliko Dangote considers Kenya as the site for 650,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery he intends to build in East Africa, Financial Times reports, citing an interview with him.
https://t.co/26Y5ru5Glo

[FT Energy @ftenergy]

Africa’s richest man eyes Kenya for new refinery https://t.co/uQPK37OFjC

[david pilling @davidpilling]

That’s quite a good citation when you come to think of it

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is looking at Kenya as the site of a 650,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery that he intends to build in East Africa, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing an interview with him. https://t.co/MBYxWG0NQr

[david pilling @davidpilling]

Dangote seems to be calling Samia's bluff: Africa’s richest man eyes Kenya for new refinery https://t.co/7uzm5lJnYA via @ft

[James Fontanella-Khan @JFK_America]

Great scoop by @ak_mna and @davidpilling

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote plans London listing of cement empire. He’s hired Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Standard Bank for the IPO, said people briefed about the matter
https://t.co/yfFzBFQtpj via @ft

[david pilling @davidpilling]

Inside the Outsider: what Camus’ letters tell you about how he loved and who he loved (not Hemingway apparently) - Mon Cher Amour — Camus, Maria Casarès and a love story in letters via @FT
https://t.co/owFS3IDL3Y

[Prashant Yadav @Prof_Yadav_SCM]

Because international aid-related stuff is so visible in the media, many people in high-income countries think foreign aid takes up 20% of GDP (when it’s actually <0.3% in most cases). Maybe the messaging from advocacy groups should be more about how the aid sector achieves so much with so little. @davidpilling @FT
https://t.co/DKPck5OJqy

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here https://t.co/hWnRozMV20

[James Chikonamombe @Zichivhu]

@iAmKudaMaynard @davidpilling @FT "Ism, ism, ism, ism, until we sounded like buzzing flies". Ha !! I have to get this book 🙏🙏

[david pilling @davidpilling]

This book is well worth your time: Chasing Freedom — Simukai Chigudu on the trail of Rhodes and Mugabe https://t.co/jVXViffMya via @ft

[david pilling @davidpilling]

@gideonrachman If only he were on the ballot

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

My good friend and @FT partner in crime in #Taiwan @KathrinHille has retired. She had an amazing career reporting over the years from Taipei, Beijing &amp; Moscow. Huge thanks to her for being an amazing teammate!

[david pilling @davidpilling]

@AsiaLens @FTPressOffice @FT @KathrinHille Kathrin is one of the greats (if that title is not already taken). An amazing privilege to work with you

[david pilling @davidpilling]

Who is the real John Hume? 'I feel he was more on the farming side than the conservation side. Then again, there are farmers who love their sheep, but still turn them into chops' https://t.co/N8QcgS3LED via @ft