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| February 19th, 2013
Amid frigid New England conditions this weekend, over 1,300 attendees from across the world braved the elements and thronged Harvard Business School venues for the 2013 Africa Business Conference. Over 20 panels lined up academics,... -
| December 31st, 2012
I had to wait for the last day of 2012 — after a reasonable amount of processing — to sketch a few thoughts on Dr. Mo Ibrahim’s keynote speech at the Achebe Colloquium on Africa three weeks back. Ibrahim touched on an array of topics, but I... -
| May 4th, 2012
Before the strange men burst into the house where she was sleeping alone, before they scoured the house for her sister and her husband – political enemies they “most likely wanted to kill” that night – before they harassed her with a blizzard... -
| March 24th, 2012
Until yesterday, I never thought I could be torn for choice in the race to elect the next leader of the World Bank. My pick, made well in advance, was clear: Nigeria's finance minister, the ever-brilliant Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The reasoning was... -
| March 9th, 2012
Above: Former Brown University professor and acclaimed Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo In the wake of International Women’s Day yesterday, and the attendant tributes that flood the web, I meant to create a (well, arbitrary) reading list that... -
| February 13th, 2012
It was day when the world was reeling from the shocking death of the eminent vocalist Whitney Houston, and later, at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, crowning a modern day heir to the likes of Houston in the shape of Adele, the British music... -
| June 21st, 2011
... re-living some BIARI moments as captured in and words and images ... "The most powerful corporation in the world is Walmart, and Walmart doesn't produce anything; its organizational capacity keeps prices and wages low... -
| June 20th, 2011
From the many lessons from last Wednesday, these two are my favorite.. #1. Tech. & Tradition ≠ mutually exclusive Techonology, just as anyone in a 21st century Western country would have anticipated, is "winning" in the way it impacts... -
| June 16th, 2011
Monday's early talk at BIARI about the impact of judicial systems in maintaining strong democracies and helping the fight to reduce global inequality was an informative session that showed the potential of judicial systems to buffer people from bad... -
| June 13th, 2011
Seventeen years after its independence, the biggest economy in Africa still struggles mightily with its land redistribution efforts, according to an academic from South Africa’s University of Cape Town. “The Land Paradox in South Africa,” by... -
| June 10th, 2011
You have to love it when the BIARI train swings into serious motion and you find yourself in a discussion about how an awful lot of money can go into producing next to nothing. The afternoon panel I attended Wednesday touched on a raw nerve... -
| June 3rd, 2011
Read the BIARI 2010 blog here I’m really excited for BIARI :) I have a feeling that the next two weeks of Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) — notwithstanding my three-year academic exploration at one of the world... -
| May 12th, 2011
Today there was a little drama in Kampala, starring the ever- amusing Yoweri Museveni and his bosom-buddy-turned-rival, Kizza Besigye. Museveni is a balding 67 year-old who enjoys rapping his own brand of hip-hop music in his free time. In... -
| May 6th, 2011
“24,000 children die every single day because of preventable water-borne diseases, and $600 million is the annual GDP loss in India alone from lost productivity because of preventable water-borne diseases,” says Brown University third-year student... -
| April 24th, 2011
In celebration of the annual cultural show hosted by the Brown African Students Association, two graduating seniors reflected on their home countries, art, culture, and their experiences at Brown. This year's jubilee by "ASA" was... -
| April 22nd, 2011
Exactly thirty-one years ago this week, on an unforgettable and lively night of April 17, 1980, tens of thousands of euphoric Africans packed a small football stadium in Harare, central Africa, to etch their own line on the solid stone... -
| April 18th, 2011
Romano Prodi is former Prime Minister of Italy and president of the European Commission (current European Union). He is currently visiting professor in the Watson Institute at Brown University. In September 2008, United Nations Secretary-... -
| April 7th, 2011
Three leading entrepreneurs — two of them Brown alums — reflected on how their organizations are making social impact in Latin American countries, during a seminar hosted by Brown's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in... -
| April 5th, 2011
Above: Ramachandra Guha _ You can watch the full webcast of this talk on the Asia Society website here Ramachandra Guha, the preeminent Indian historian and author of two blockbuster narratives on the modern making of his country, provided a... -
| March 23rd, 2011
Asia Society, the global pan-Asian organization promoting ties between the continent and the United States, will host one of the most preeminent public intellectuals, historians and authors in contemporary India — Ramachandra Guha, on Friday, March... -
| March 17th, 2011
On Tuesday next week, Brown University will host one of the biggest discussion makers in today’s international political economy — the best-selling author and economist, Dambisa Moyo. Moyo is the Zambian-born author of two New York Times best-... -
| March 14th, 2011
excerpts from a speech made at the 2011 Harvard Africa Business Conference by a Brown engineering freshman student from Kenya. _____ My name is Githiora Thuku and I am from Kenya. I am a graduate of the African Leadership Academy, and currently a... -
| February 19th, 2011
In her native Zimbabwe, a country plagued by political and economic challenges, Sandra Nyaira's name is associated with reporting excellence, courage and success. Nyaira rose from the humble urban township of Glen Norah, in Zimbabwe's capital city... -
| February 16th, 2011
“Partnering with the poor is not a one-way charity relationship,” the night’s guest speaker told Brown students at a TED Talk in Barus & Holley Engineering Building on Thursday, February 10, 2011. Ryan Richards, executive director of...
Dominic Mhiripiri
Profile
I co-edit Global Conversation, and I am a senior studying economics and actuarial math at Brown (and also recently took a gap year in which I traveled, worked, and wrote about my experiences in several southern African countries.)
I write about different topics, including development, economic challenges, politics, poverty, and social innovation. I somewhat gravitate toward issues that pertain, firstly, to emerging economies, and secondly, to the African continent, which is my home (by way of Harare, Zimbabwe,) and in equal measures, a source of much wonder, frustration, and inspiration.
In my spare time, I love singing a capella music and immersing myself into really good books (preferably, as I have found out, in the company of cows on a ranch anywhere deep inside the remote quiescence of the Kalahari region, southern Africa, my home in the last quarter of 2011. As for books, I have recently enjoyed Katherine Boo's splendorously written and evocative Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a vintage paperback of Isabelle Allende's The Infinite Plan, and the masterful seminal work in the nonfiction novel genre, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.)
Home is Calling, a collection of short stories and my first book, will come out 2015.
