Dear Colleagues,

As this newsletter is sent out from “a country attempting to sustain its neocolonial delusions”  (according to Paul Kagame himself 😊), we’ll try to keep our delusions to a minimum in this intro.

Let’s start with a couple of must-reads – all one way or another linked to ‘Trump 2.0’. Ken Opalo’s hardhitting article in an Africanist Perspective, ‘African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency’, went viral this week. Opalo makes a number of valid points, so it’s easy to see why. From a different angle, the same was true for Daniel Reidpath’s  ‘aid cruelty is not an opportunity’ and Fifa Rahman et al’s  ‘A Roadmap for South-South Cooperation’. 

Borrowing a leaf from B Badré et al then, who worry in a Project Syndicate op-ed about ‘The rise of “greenhushing” (i.e. when companies (& other actors)  downplay environmental risks for financial or political reasons), we hope “health-hushing” won’t take off in the coming years, as...