Learning to Unlearn: How Global Institutions Misread African Relational Contexts

Thewillnews | 26-10-2025 12:56pm |

“The greatest obstacle to learning is what we think we already know.” The Relational Blind Spot International development institutions, donors and policy consultants often arrive in African countries with a playbook, one rooted in technocratic logic, universal metrics and formal institutional frameworks. While these frameworks are useful in principle, they often fail in practice. Why?

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