This year renewables will top global electricity generation—a historic shift. But with 685M still without power & 1.18B in energy poverty, the question is: how can this revolution deliver for everyone? On #CleanEnergyDay learn what will drive the sustainable energy revolution👇

A compulsory read for every African.

I’m excited to have shared insights from my research at the 10th Resilience Conference in Nashville, Tennessee! I’m also incredibly honoured to have received the Life Paths Promising Scholar Award at the conference. Huge thanks to the organisers for this recognition.

My recommendations on economic growth and development

We're reflecting on the workshop that Coventry University co-organized with University of Westminster and collaborators across Africa that brought together scholars and practitioners from Rwanda, Ghana, South Sudan, and the UK to reframe narratives around resilience.

📝 Read another new Vol. 53, Issue 2 article by Matt Gravlin which articulates a theory of non-relation for Indigenous Peoples in the Anthropocene. Check out "All My. . . Non-Relation: Critical Indigenous Theory in the Anthropocene" below journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Publication Alert 🚨 I’m excited to share my first journal article in Development in Practice as part of a special issue on climate complexities in the Global South. I examine how resilience projects reproduce injustices and forms of resistance. Open Access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Charles Amo-Agyemang, 'The Cliché of Sustainability: Governing #Indigeneity and the #Anthropocene Entanglement', Ayika – Journal of Environment and Politics in Africa (2025) 7(1), 17-27 #BecomingIndigenous journals.glotanjournals.com/index.php/ajep…

Grateful to present at the 2025 CAS Conference on Climate Dynamics & the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa The University of Edinburgh. I spoke on how climate resilience efforts in Northern Ghana can obscure environmental injustice and silence local forms of resistance.

Nice story but a terrible picture🙂University of Westminster CSDWestminster WestminsterPolitics&InternationalRelations recognition by algorithm is of course problematic but, hey ho, bias and weighting are intrinsic to all modes of calculation westminster.ac.uk/news/professor…

From Accra to Oxford! 🇬🇭✈️🇬🇧 What an incredible time at the 2025 Oxford Africa Conference at the University of Oxford, UK. Grateful for this opportunity. Can’t wait to be back! #Africa #Oxford #OxfordAfricaConference

What an unforgettable journey! Proud to have co-led the 2025 Oxford Africa Conference — a gathering of leaders, thinkers & changemakers. Highlight: delivering closing speech, moderating the climate panel & enjoying the AI session w/ brilliant minds like Riad Meddeb & Amir Lebdioui.

In a new article in Antipode, Clement Amponsah examines why certain well-intentioned resilience interventions fail and (re)produce unintended consequences. Resilience praxis, he argues, appropriates neo-colonial subjectivities and power inequivalence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

See also his article in Development in Practice: ‘Resisting resilience: re-conceptualising “counter-conduct” to environmental (in)justices in Northern Ghana’ [open access] tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation. africasacountry.com/2025/07/agains…

Clement Amponsah Clement Amponsah 'Against climate resilience', Africa Is A Country Africa Is a Country July 2025 africasacountry.com/2025/07/agains…

Against Climate Resilience by Clement Amponsah countercurrents.org/2025/07/agains… Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

My latest article was just published by Africa Is a Country ‘Against climate resilience’ highlights how resilience building in Africa does not always empower vulnerable populations but serves as a mechanism for reinforcing neocolonial hegemonic dependencies.

New, open access paper in Antipode examines long term making of energy sacrificial zones in Global South, with green energy being latest avatar. 'A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…