Issue No. 002 | Sep 2026
THE WRONG INDICATOR: HOW AFRICA MEASURES WORK AND MISSES POVERTY
In Madagascar, 83 per cent of working-age adults have a job, one of the highest employment rates in Sub Saharan Africa, yet 86 per cent of them are still poor. Africa measures employment. Poverty emanates as a result of the work people do, how productive it is, and what income it generates. Development policy rewards the wrong outcome. The indicators African governments celebrate are the employment rate, which says so little about compensation, stability, or a job’s actual bearing on poverty. In this brief, we present that
employment rates have become one of the least informative indicators in African development policy. Employment rate matters; the problem is that the indicators only measure the first link in a much longer chain.
Issue No. 001 | Jul 2026
FROM UNGA RESOLUTION A/80/L.48 TO IMPLEMENTATION: THE AFRICAN UNION AND THE FUTURE OF REPARATORY JUSTICE
The Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, marks a significant and long-awaited milestone in the global pursuit of historical justice. Much of the discourse surrounding the resolution has focused predominantly on its symbolic and declaratory significance. This emphasis, while important, obscures the policy dimension of the resolution. Reliefs 10–14 constitute the resolution’s operational core and outline concrete processes to begin reparatory justice.