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In March 2020, when South Africa entered one of the hardest lockdowns on earth, the government did something governments rarely do: it opened the treasury. Business rescue packages appeared, real...
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In March 2020, when South Africa entered one of the hardest lockdowns on earth, the government did something governments rarely do: it opened the treasury. Business rescue packages appeared, real...
Somewhere near the end of a two-hundred-page academic volume on African entrepreneurship, in the smallest type on the page, sits a footnote. Footnote 1, chapter 10. Academic footnotes are where...
In 1995, Kenya's Court of Appeal sat down to explain the limits of a dead man's freedom, and instead of citing precedent after precedent, the judges reached for two pictures. The case was Elizabeth...
The phone call happens in every diaspora family eventually, and it sounds like love, because it is. A mother in Kampala or Accra or Kingston is getting older, and the banking is getting harder: the...
Nancy was the oldest of three sisters, and like many oldest daughters, she was the one who handled things. Her parents lived in New York; she lived across the American continent in California, and...
Somewhere around 1961, in southern India, a man the court record calls K is said to have given his sister R a piece of the backyard behind his property. Not sold. Given, in the old customary way that...
Buried in the special-activities chapter of a 2002 church manual, between a mother-daughter makeover idea and a note about adoptive-family support groups, sits a single sentence that contains an...
A nephew stands in front of the family with a plan. He wants to open a bottled-water and refills business in the trading center, and he is asking the family to put money behind him. The debate that...
Go to any produce market in the last hour before dark and watch two women selling the same tomatoes. The first has a cool corner at home and no debt due tomorrow; when a buyer offers her less than...