Africatalyst

Insights on Africa’s business, economics, geopolitics, and history - and the people shaping its future.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@BoardLotSultan Look up Tom Gitogo, Partick Tumbo, Njeri Jomo, Patrick Gatonga, Justine Kosgei, Asman Mugambi... off the top of my head.

[NomdeGuerre @NomdeGuerre24]

@gyude_moore @CBankingEditor @kopalo Social media could play an interesting role in this as superbly analysed by @africatalyst_ in their substack today: https://t.co/cvlU2YIuBY

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@BoardLotSultan You think IPPs are expensive? Karpower ships on long term contracts price their power at eye watering rates!

[Adam Thiam Cox @AThiamCox]

https://t.co/t417vYOZpD

Super article de @africatalyst_ sur l’importance et l’utilité d’une bourgeoisie pour un pays.

[Adam Thiam Cox @AThiamCox]

Le narratif de Dangote & Co autour de l’importance de l’élite / la bourgeoisie dans la création de richesse est de valeur m’est de plus en plus convaincante.

Mais comment passer d’une élite version super car sans plaque occupant 2x places à une élite impliquée servant le 🇸🇳 ?

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@kyleschutter Asante!
Controversial but true.

[Kyle @ Kuzana.co 🐘🐘🐘 @kyleschutter]

Africa needs more Robber Barons... Like Dangote

great article by @africatalyst_
https://t.co/GdkGaJreth

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@mwetich__ Finance & Foreign Affairs.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@mwetich__ Norges Bank manages the sovereign wealth fund aka the oil money.
Norfund is a wing of Norway's foreign ministry that functions as a development finance institution.

[Yaw @YawBoaduBenjam2]

In this piece, I collaborate with Africatalyst on the distinction between aesthetic modernity (visible highways) vs Institutional modernity (invisible sewage systems)
https://t.co/4OaKnyUQzf

[Randomista @Randommest]

Excellent points are being made

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@Mukiteee The head of the worlds largest sovereign wealth fund is a podcast bro in his free time. And his guests are heavy hitters. Thoroughly grateful I live in times like these. Check out Norges Bank on YT!

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@MisterAlbie The purpose of a system is what it does. Not what it consistently fails to do.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@kahome_steve Forgetting 27 is an election year.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@KillaLando The owners of capital are owners of the state. Why on earth would they introduce such a tax?

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@ngwata_ Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme.

[Africatalyst @africatalyst_]

@Ohta_Ryota You did a proper job peddling kumira kumira back in the day bwana Gicheru.