The Trillion-Dollar Machinery of Capital Violence
How US Military Spending Starves Africa's Development - An analysis of how military expenditure perpetuates global inequality and stunts African economic growth.
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WavinyaMakai
BY CLARITY WE RISE
A Philosophy of African Economic Sovereignty
βAfrica does not need pity. It needs clarity, courage, and capital.β
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I am Wavinya Makai, a Development Scholar, Cambridge-trained thinker, and author.
With a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and international relations from University of Nairobi. I am committed to producing clarity where distortion has ruled, and to building knowledge that reshapes Africa's place in the world.
This is not simply an author's website. It is a hub of ideas, a publishing house of one, and a stage for a movement.
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Capital Violence: The Economics of Military Spending and Africa's Development
A groundbreaking analysis of how global military expenditure perpetuates economic inequality and stunts African development. This book exposes the hidden machinery of capital violence and charts a path toward true economic sovereignty.
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"When the world spends trillions on weapons while Africa begs for debt relief, that is not just economics. That is violence."β Wavinya Makai
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Sankofa Journal
Essays. Ideas. Provocations.
This is where I write with fire; blending philosophy, data, and African voices. It is not a blog. It is a living library.
The White-Collar Mirage: Rediscovering Africa's True Engine
Moving beyond the obsession with white-collar jobs to embrace Africa's diverse economic opportunities and entrepreneurial spirit.
ππΎ Read full post on LinkedInBeyond the Monolith: Reclaiming Africa's Mosaic of Markets and Minds
Challenging singular narratives about Africa and celebrating the continent's diverse markets, cultures, and intellectual traditions.
ππΎ Read full post on LinkedInResearch Ownership & Africa Rising
When the knowledge you produce is owned overseas, who benefits? I dissect the colonial chains still binding research in Africa β and reclaim the argument.
ππΎ Read full post on LinkedInAfrica's Economic Sovereignty
GDP and aid are illusions. Real liberation lies in who controls knowledge, capital, and production.
ππΎ Read full post on LinkedInTrade Within Africa & Decolonizing Data
Africa knows best how to trade with itself. When data is decolonized, strategy becomes sovereignty.
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Capital Violence Launch
18th October 2025 | 2:00β5:00 PM
Kenya National Library + Watch the livestream below.
Press & Conversations
From Citizen TV debates to Cambridge halls, I bring Africa's story to every stage.
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NTV Interview - Fixing the Nation
Kenya need A Decolonization from Debt, Hunger & Knowledge
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What's on your shelf Podcast
Exploring African knowledge, power, and dignity.
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Citizen TV - DAY BREAK
Are Kenyan youth heartless critics as Ruto allies claim?
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The work does not end with books. It expands into ventures that seed clarity into capital.
Mitukai Africa Solutions
Strategic advisory in mobility, markets, and research.
Sankofa Awards for Thought
Celebrating Africa's intellectual giants.
This is not charity. This is the business of knowledge.
A Global Phenomenon
I walk with the voices of African thinkers: Sylvia Tamale, Samir Amin, Achille Mbembe, NgΕ©gΔ© wa Thiong'o. Together we declare: Africa will not be studied into silence.
We will roar, write, and rise. By Clarity we rise.