Crises force us to stop and think. This paper examines the prospect of deep reform of national planning in Africa in response to COVID-19. The paper is a contrasted case study of Kenya and Uganda. The attempt at generalisation across Africa draws on a shared history of state formation. And a...

Models predict. Frames illuminate. This paper uses the frames of dynamical systems and control theory to illuminate transport in Africa post COVID-19. The pandemic is a holonomic effect. It allows the space of transport to be linearized. Consequently, state parameters and control actuators could...

Explication of reality may draw tools outside the phenomenon. That is the essence of case study, and the epistemological motivation of this paper. The paper illuminates the space of PPP policy in the UK. Yet, that illumination raises questions that stand to guide other countries, and the paper...

The cash reserve (‘dry powder') of private equity (PE) is approximately US$1 trillion. The force of PE is hitting public-private partnerships (PPP). That excitation is affecting the delivery of infrastructure across the world. This paper draws on the limit cycle of dynamical systems to analyze...

Two nodes are salient in the space of Africa's development. The first is a concern about population explosion harking back the sixties. The other is infrastructure, particularly at the unfolding of the new millennium. The two concerns have captivated the world of international development –...

The first attempts at public-private partnerships (PPP) in Africa were in the rail sector. As part of structural adjustment programme (SAP) in the nineties, the state conceded market power of rail to the private sector. One of the salient projects was Rift Valley Rail (RVR) concession in Uganda...

This is a response case. The excitation is the fourth industrial revolution, and it is modelled as a stepped sinusoidal function. The object is transport in the lower-income (high-growth) countries, and particularly Africa. The paper retains the methodological variety of case study. Semiotic...

The paper illuminates the non-ergodic space of Africa from a vantage point of transport research. It draws on the methodology and epistemology of case study to examine the dynamical space. The paper traces both the physical and social dimensions of transport research back to independence. It...

PPP brings concreteness to abstraction. The concrete projects force long term thinking. At the same time, a long view always demands abstraction. The paper is guided by the abstraction of the Lagrangian frame motivated by the performance of two PPP projects in Uganda. That way, the paper...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) is a ubiquitous reality. In Africa, the wave of PPP has hit states in their infancy – still moulding following only 50 years since independence. The common perspective of PPP on the realms of scholarship is transactional (focused on the delivery-end of...