Our vision, however wide we think it is, is always tinted by our experiences, our fears, and the things we’ve conditioned ourselves to...

As debates heat up over who’s responsible to pay for cleaning up the climate mess, the basic question of just what is “climate finance”...

In June 2024, the City of New York thrust the question of fit-for-purpose insurance into the spotlight with a proposed bill aimed at...

In 2001, a guest lecturer in my 1st year "Introduction to Actuarial Science" SAC 101 course unit asked this question. He then worked as...

August 2023 has been, for me, a month of re-read and re-discovery. I re-read hoodwinked by John Perkins. Partly because I enjoy his...

Image credit Perhaps, a good number of us who did elementary and high school in the 1980’s and 1990’s will relate to the affirmative...

A reflection of the book: One who dreams is called a prophet (2020), By Dr. Sultan Somjee To be a good writer (academic or otherwise),...

Globally, over 1 billion people (about a third of the world’s urban population) live in slums and informal settlements (UN-Habitat,...

Image credit: dreamstime In a world where teamwork is sacrosanct, piecemeal “conveyor belt” division of labor and Standard Operating...

[image credit Joe Wehbe] The ineptness of dominant economic development frameworks, templates and toolkits to solve present day...

Poverty is this “thing” “Elephant in the room” prevalent in developing Nations – with Sub Saharan Africa its poster child. It is...

The impression that things are not working well for a majority always lingers with glaring manifestations in Africa. Social wellbeing is...

Picture this: A sunny Friday afternoon. You are on the highway driving out of town for a weekend rendezvous with your old time buddies...

Democracy (“rule by the people”) is considered the least bad among an array of problematic options of how to govern people, organize and...

An apocryphal story is told: In the beginning man lived free in nature - “Garden of Eden”. There was no authority or dominion over man....

Image credit: The Financial Times The crux of sociological inquiry is denaturalizing what we see..... The COVID – 19 pandemic and ensuing...

Unlocking the multiplier effect for expanding social protection to the uncovered informal sector workers in Africa through identity,...

Summary: Despite the glimmers of hope across the African continent of progress made in the social protection agenda, these efforts hardly...

What's in a name? Turns out quite a bit beyond identity if the experience of the "informal" traders and "informal" workers who account...

In discourse and legal scripts - Kenya is now a centenarian! It has been a century since the colony and protectorate of Kenya was...