A tremendous honor for me to partner with Prof Zachariah Mampilly, Pasiri & the Lusaka Contemporary Art Center in hosting this year’s Junior Scholars Workshop. Please apply to attend. Details here 👇🏿

I met Denzel Washington today while he was sitting in a train station (probably on a break from filming) and while I stared and gawked at him he asked if I was gonna stand there being pretty or come take a picture… naturally I took that to mean he called me pretty!

A tremendous honor for me to partner with Prof Zachariah Mampilly, Pasiri & the Lusaka Contemporary Art Center in hosting this year’s Junior Scholars Workshop. Please apply to attend. Details here 👇🏿

A tremendous honor Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz for us to get to do this with you, and with Rana Foroohar Adriana Erthal Abdenur Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social.

Out now: Oxfam International's event on Remaking Global Economic Governance for a Post-Neoliberal Era.

What would the IMF and World Bank look like if we remade them today?

Join us in Lusaka, Zambia for our Junior Scholars' Workshop on Inequality in Africa hosted by the inimitable Grieve Chelwa and the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre. Should be an excellent gathering! Please spread the word.

Ghost Adam this applies to Ghana because it has a CFA (common framework agreement) in place. this is still not a win-win as David Malpass and World Bank outline.

Grieve Chelwa Tim Jones any reactions?

Universities are suspending students engaged in peaceful sit-ins and debates about the genocide in Gaza, in order to justify their forcible removal. This is a misuse of power and an attack on academic freedom.

It will also backfire.

I expect better from The New School

Grieve Chelwa You were right. Limitations were evident from the get go but the hype around it was sky high. Walking back was difficult given the massive political and institutional capital its champions had invested in it...

On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Strange Fruit’

The Chilling Story of Strange Fruit and Billie Holiday.

A THREAD!

I have been railing against the common framework for a while now. Good to see that criticism is now coming from within the establishment, although after the damage has already taken place

#LetFreedomSing This I never thought I would ever hear again after the terrible SAPs of the 1990s and their devastating impact . But what's worse is admission of lack of agency and not taking seriously local expertise and advise

Fictitious Capital Grieve Chelwa Thomas Piketty + Grieve Chelwa

from🇱🇰 never too late for this healthy shift.

given 🇱🇰r/w think tanks are on a libertarian script that isn't keeping pace with global debates🤷🏽‍♀️

Advocata Institute Verité Research Dhananath Fernando Murtaza Jafferjee W A Wijewardena Nishan de Mel Harsha de Silva

.Ishaan Tharoor has written an excellent piece in the The Washington Post summarising the anger & frustration of the Global South with the West’s domination & weaponisation of institutions of global economic governance.

Africa’s debt crisis needs a political fix, contend experts - my piece from Ghana.

Reducing it to corruption/misgovernance unhelpful, stress economists; call for substantive reform of international financial architecture

thehindu.com/news/internati… via The Hindu

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The 'new' Washington consensus looks a lot like the old one.🔥Ishaan Tharoor:

Grieve Chelwa on how IMF policies risk another lost generation

Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social on IFIs' destructive obsolescence

Adriana Erthal Abdenur on rich cos pushing industrial policy at home & austerity abroad
washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Thomas Piketty It is truly incredible to witness Piketty discover the exact same reality that Marxists and the heterodox thinkers have been documenting, only to be laughed at by Piketty’s crew, for well over 50 years.

TODAY'S WORLDVIEW
As globalization unwinds, the world is still growing more unequal
(free to read)
wapo.st/3JvZd5X

This is now an established principle: get compliant Black and Brown voices to talk nonsense & make public fools of themselves

Greatest appreciation to Bernie Sanders.

Backs the Brazilian G20 Presidency proposal to tax the super-rich internationally, alongside Minister Fernando Haddad.

Utmost respect to Senator and to Rep. Ilhan Omar for their leadership. Proud for Oxfam International to be part of this.

We can do this.