AFEA 2025 Conference: Insights on Africa’s Sustainable Development
The African Finance and Economics Association (AFEA) held its annual conference this year. It collaborated with the Department of Economics and Development Studies at the University of Nairobi. This event took place from July 16 to 18, 2025. The conference was themed “The Future of Work: Building a Better Africa for Tomorrow’s Generation through Sustainable Development…
𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐏𝐡𝐃: 𝐀𝐧 𝐎𝐱𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫.
PhD, originally known as a ‘license to teach’ in its etymological sense is the highest level of academic achievement. Put bluntly, it is the end of study (or the study of the end!). If judged from Abraham Maslow’s needs hierarchy (Maslow, 1943,1954), a PhD is an investment in one’s self-actualisation. For Maslow, this is the…
My Experience as the UN Graduate Study Program Fellow at Geneva
On July 1, 2024, I was privileged to join a cohort of exceptionally gifted and talented individuals drawn from 6 continents at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland (UNOG). This convening followed an April 2024 award and the invitation to attend the United Nations Graduate Study Program (GSP), the longest-running graduate-level educational program of…
Matai Muon 