Grieve Chelwa
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Grieve Chelwa
@gchelwa.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Africa Institute. From Lusaka.
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New on substack, a piece about one of my all time heroes Zhou Enlai

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Where are the Zhou Enlais of Africa?
The life of the Chinese revolutionary and statesman holds leadership lessons for Africa
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last August, a group of emerging scholars mostly from the African continent gathered at the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre for a two day workshop under the theme the Political Economy of Inequality in Africa.
May 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Grieve Chelwa
In this new long read, we publish in full the second chapter of Can Africans Do Economics?, published by inkani books, in which @gchelwa.bsky.social charts the long history of Africa’s struggle for emancipatory development and freedom from its former colonisers.
roape.net/2025/05/07/d...
Development as emancipation - ROAPE
Published in late 2024 by South African publisher Inkani Books, Can Africans do Economics? examines the intersection of economic development and freedom across Africa. Across its six chapters, the boo...
roape.net
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM