When building another half-occupied high-rise is more rational than investing into the productive economy. Likely to be not just a Ghana problem. Excellent read by @abotebuno.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africaisacountry1.bsky.social theconversation.com/ghanas-banks...

Thanks, @econgeo.bsky.social for your great comments on the initial draft and for highlighting this recent piece in the Forum for Social Economics.

Thanks, @kaikodden.bsky.social for the wonderful comments you, together with Stefan and Franklin gave me on the initial draft.

Really sad that Michael Burawoy has left us in these dark times. He was a very inspirational scholar. His work on the extended case study and re-visits in particular shaped our own work in significant ways. Rest in power, Professor Burawoy. #afripolsky #geosky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Africa in the Shadow of the Global Right". Hot off the press @pambazukanews.bsky.social #afripolsky #geosky @cgallaher.bsky.social @handle.invalid @ambermurrey.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @africaisacountry1.bsky.social@rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social pambazuka.org/taxonomy/ter...

New open access paper: "Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa! A must-read for all those interested in racialized/gendered inequalities & the VC industry, esp. in Africa. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Migrating all my open access work that have been published over the past 3 years to this space, as many new folks coming in. Today, our piece on "Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future". #geosky #geo journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for #VAD24 in Bayreuth. Is Black capitalism a track for the economic emancipation of the African (diaspora) masses, or is such a project a mere fallacy because capital(ism) is organically anti-Black? Transatlantic modes of epistemic engagement are encouraged. nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2024/...

In this Intervention @antipodeonline.bsky.social, Wangui Kimari reflects on Antipode’s “Decolonial Thinkers from Africa” series, including the interviews with F. Obeng-Odoom, S. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, and S. Tamale, as well as the Intervention by P. Daley. antipodeonline.org/2023/10/27/d... #geosky

New paper by wonderful scholars: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"History Repeating Itself? Ghana, Financial Dependency and the Political Economy of Africa's Debt". Excellent new open-access paper by Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo in Development and Change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Glad the author of this excellent piece on Ghana's and indeed Africa's debt crisis has joined us here. Welcome Abote! @abotebuno.bsky.social