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On 24 July 2025, The Forge, in partnership with Inkani, launched the book Can Africans Do Economics?
Authors
Grieve Chelwa is associate professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Social Sciences Department at the Africa Institute. He is also a senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
His current research focuses on the political economy of development in Africa.
Chelwa has previously held academic and administrative positions at The New School,the University of Cape Town and Harvard University.
Marion Ouma is a research associate with the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy at the University of South Africa, where she also completed her doctorate. Her research interests include social policy, social protection, policymaking and the political economy of Africa's development.
Redge Nkosi is a senior economic advisor to the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA). He is the founding director of Monetary Reform International, an organisation aimed at reforming the global monetary and banking system and also the head of research for Firstsource Money - a money, banking and macroeconomic research and advisory group.
Discussant
Duma qubule has spent two decades as a financial journalist, analyst and researcher. He is a columnist and advisor on economic development and transformation.
On 24 July 2025, The Forge, in partnership with Inkani, launched the book Can Africans Do Economics?
Authors
Grieve Chelwa is associate professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Social Sciences Department at the Africa Institute. He is also a senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
His current research focuses on the political economy of development in Africa.
Chelwa has previously held academic and administrative positions at The New School,the University of Cape Town and Harvard University.
Marion Ouma is a research associate with the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy at the University of South Africa, where she also completed her doctorate. Her research interests include social policy, social protection, policymaking and the political economy of Africa's development.
Redge Nkosi is a senior economic advisor to the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA). He is the founding director of Monetary Reform International, an organisation aimed at reforming the global monetary and banking system and also the head of research for Firstsource Money - a money, banking and macroeconomic research and advisory group.
Discussant
Duma qubule has spent two decades as a financial journalist, analyst and researcher. He is a columnist and advisor on economic development and transformation.
