I must say, I like Medium, it asks in a rather (what I can only assume is a kind tone) to tell my story.
Well, my story like many of you is still being written, but do allow me to introduce these musings. I have had this page open for a “hot minute” now and I thought it's about time I pen my thoughts, and that is exactly what this will be about; my thoughts and opinions on matters natural resource governance.
Just as a Mobius loop I intend to connect the dots and by doing so, relate the natural…
A friend of mine after interacting with Back to the Future pointed out the irony of government and how they tend to speak from both sides of their mouth. A rather curious observation I thought. This drew me to ponder on how African governments are handling the Just Energy Transition — an ambitious shift in the energy sector away from fossil fuels towards clean and renewable energy.
Centrality of Energy
Energy is crucial. The collapse of the Texas Power grid in February 2021 underscores this. Moreover, this has been echoed by Vera Songwe (the UNECA Executive Secretary) during her MIT Energy Initiative Podcast…
I am excited about this one!! Why? Because my hope is you will eventually be able to question Africa’s readiness for change.
“A change gon’ come|Oh, yes it will” uncle Sam Cooke sang.
But before we get to it, allow me to preface this with the tale of Marty McFly and Doc Brown and their adventures through temporal displacement. Marty, the protagonist of the Back to the Future movie trilogy (1985–1989), envisages how the future will look, specifically 21st Oct 2015. The future that Marty experiences’ self-lacing shoes, hoverboards, and flying cars that can run on banana peels and electricity…
I have been procrastinating on this blog post, because… but let us jump into it.
One of the biggest outcomes of 2020 was the boom in social sites. Social media content creators had the arduous task of creating more for an audience that has time, and some truly did not disappoint. One person I “discovered” during the Rona year was Mark Rober who genuinely envy. Mandem is living my childhood dream with all the inventions he is excogitating, and for me who grew up wanting to be Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Dexter from Dexter’s Lab, in my…
Orina Andrew
These are the thought and opinions of an aspiring academic sojourner who just wants to solve the world’s problems.
