Kevin P. Donovan

Kevin P. Donovan is Senior Lecturer at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and author of Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa.

What Does It Take to Topple a Dam?

A new politics of rivers is emerging.

  • Kevin P. Donovan

The Politics of Price

How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.

  • Kevin P. Donovan

Microfinance’s Imagined Utopia

Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.

  • Kevin P. Donovan

Colonizing the Future

Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke—preventing them from having any control over their own futures.

  • Kevin P. Donovan

Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

Kenya’s poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.

  • Kevin P. Donovan
  • Emma Park
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