Links I Liked

POTUS continues to keep social media interesting, if alarming. ‘The World is an Angry Place’: Ben Phillips reckons there should be an app to watch all Trump interviews like this. While the Economist points out that the Trump White House has no pets for the first time since Johnson. But check out the others (hippos, alligators etc)

Couple of good pieces on China in Africa:

New paper summarizing what we know about Chinese investment on the continent

Hannah Ryder asks what research tells us about how Africa can get the best out of the relationship

Economist chart of UK migrant kids’ exam results, showing a huge spread between language groups compared to the national average

The Kabila Family Business. Expose of the DRC President’s 80 companies, including contracts with the World Bank, UN etc h/t Joshua Williams

Five TED Talks that inspired the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (on remittances, hunger, poverty, private sector, inequality)

The RSA has boiled down the discussion on power and systems in my standard How Change Happens presentation to just 6 minutes.