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A Negligent Discharge: How an Unfounded Foreign-Aid Claim Endangered Mozambique’s HIV Response

By Bolaji Ogunfemi A negligent discharge occurs when a weapon is fired unintentionally because the person controlling it fails to exercise the care demanded by its destructive capacity. Harm may not have been the objective. That does not make what happened an innocent accident. Someone had control of the weapon. Someone knew, or ought toContinue reading “A Negligent Discharge: How an Unfounded Foreign-Aid Claim Endangered Mozambique’s HIV Response”

Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid

By Bolaji Ogunfemi Between 2005 and 2024, climate-related disasters disrupted the schooling of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa and caused US$1.3 billion in direct damage to education infrastructure. UNICEF and Dalberg put the resulting loss in lifetime earnings at up to US$140 billion, rising towards US$380 billion by 2050 if nothing changes.Continue reading “Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid”

Sociology and its imperatives for human development in Africa

By Bolaji Ogunfemi A great many people will agree that the individual is to society what people are to human development. Society comprises clusters of individuals while human development is positive change in the lives of people. Development academics, practitioners, and researchers have roundly highlighted human capital as crucial to a country’s journey on theContinue reading “Sociology and its imperatives for human development in Africa”