…to its global image: China building railroads, pipelines, stadiums, cities, and ports across Asia, Latin America, and Africa as part of direct investment and deals for access to resources; China…

…said, “we know little more about distribution today than Napoleon’s contemporaries knew about the interior of Africa.” Military and colonial metaphors pervade the field even in its civilian form, and…

…of engaging in ethnic politics. This happens in ways significant and mundane: the public even scrutinizes promotional giveaways for signs of ethnic favoritism, requiring Safaricom’s CEO to publicly insist on…

…and photographs, the following section is an exercise in critical design anthropology, serving a dual purpose of documentation and provocation. Building on African solutions to African problems—namely the shortage of…

…to a series of African outbreaks over the last two decades. Along with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease control (CDC), the group can even…

…is being revived in programs of infrastructure planning that rely on private investment, both from African publics and from non-African investors. Aung explores how infrastructure development for a special economic…

…the national health system more data driven, with a strong emphasis on maternal and child health. In the wake of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, initiatives aimed at…