Essays, stories and conversations about the people shaping Africa. Each one can be read right here on this page.
The liberation generation solved the problem in front of them, and solved it well. The problem in front of this generation is different, and some of the qualities that were right for the first task become damaging in the second.
Why this institution refuses the word almost everybody else in the field uses, and what changes the moment you stop looking for leaders and start looking for people.
Africa does not need another hundred most influential people. It needs somebody to do the work properly first. What would have to be true before a number is worth printing.
Deep profiles of people making history. Not an introduction to somebody impressive: an examination of what they did, what it cost, and what failed on the way. The first are being recorded now.
Long interviews, recorded and published close to whole. The edit is the article; the recording and the transcript go into the archive. The first are being recorded now.
People who may shape Africa's future before anybody has recognised them. The strand that keeps this institution looking ahead, not only at success already won.
What comes next. The first Stories and Conversations are being recorded now. They are not here yet because a profile written from a website is not a profile, and we would rather this page look short than padded. If you know somebody who belongs here, nominate them.