Abote Abotebuno Akolgo

Ghana’s banks are not lending enough to sectors where it matters most, like agriculture and manufacturing Ghanaian bank lending to agriculture and manufacturing is in decline

When building another half-occupied high-rise is more rational than investing into the productive economy. Likely to be not just a Ghana problem. Excellent read by @abotebuno.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africaisacountry1.bsky.social
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Thanks, @econgeo.bsky.social for your great comments on the initial draft and for highlighting this recent piece in the Forum for Social Economics.

Thanks, @kaikodden.bsky.social for the wonderful comments you, together with Stefan and Franklin gave me on the initial draft.

When agricultural commercialization fails: ‘Re-visiting’ value-chain agriculture and its ruins in northern Ghana Commercialization via value-chain agriculture, under which small farmers often collaborate with big companies, has become a prominent development strategy across Africa. Often framed in win-win ter...

Really sad that Michael Burawoy has left us in these dark times. He was a very inspirational scholar. His work on the extended case study and re-visits in particular shaped our own work in significant ways. Rest in power, Professor Burawoy. #afripolsky #geosky
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"Africa in the Shadow of the Global Right". Hot off the press @pambazukanews.bsky.social
#afripolsky #geosky @cgallaher.bsky.social @handle.invalid @ambermurrey.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @africaisacountry1.bsky.social@rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social

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Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa Abstract. Between 2015 and 2022, venture capital (VC) investments in Africa have increased significantly. However, a closer look reveals that these investm

New open access paper: "Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa! A must-read for all those interested in racialized/gendered inequalities & the VC industry, esp. in Africa.
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Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future - Stefan Ouma, Saumya Premchander, 2022 In this commentary, we call upon critical labour scholars, including labour geographers, to feature what sociologist Palmer called the ‘thrust of efficiency’ mo...

Migrating all my open access work that have been published over the past 3 years to this space, as many new folks coming in. Today, our piece on
"Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future". #geosky #geo
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VAD2024 Conference: Reconfigurations in Africa - and in African Studies 30 September - 02 October 2024, Bayreuth

Join us for #VAD24 in Bayreuth. Is Black capitalism a track for the economic emancipation of the African (diaspora) masses, or is such a project a mere fallacy because capital(ism) is organically anti-Black? Transatlantic modes of epistemic engagement are encouraged. nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2024/...

Intervention — “Decolonial Crossroads” by Wangui Kimari Introduction In the following Intervention, Wangui Kimari reflects on Antipode’s “Decolonial Thinkers from Africa” series, including the interviews with Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsh...

In this Intervention @antipodeonline.bsky.social, Wangui Kimari reflects on Antipode’s “Decolonial Thinkers from Africa” series, including the interviews with F. Obeng-Odoom, S. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, and S. Tamale, as well as the Intervention by P. Daley.
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New paper by wonderful scholars: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"History Repeating Itself? Ghana, Financial Dependency and the Political Economy of Africa's Debt". Excellent new open-access paper by Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo in Development and Change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Glad the author of this excellent piece on Ghana's and indeed Africa's debt crisis has joined us here. Welcome Abote! @abotebuno.bsky.social

Thanks, Stefan for the invitation!