The African Union’s new $50 million Africa Think Tank Platform, funded by the World Bank, faces a binding constraint: a shortage of analysts trained in African-centred frameworks. HBCU Politics argues that HBCU policy schools at Southern, Clark Atlanta, Jackson State, and Texas Southern already form a latent training network. Organized as a consortium and capitalized by alumni foundations, they could supply the pipeline Africa’s policy institutions require, as Lincoln University once did for Nkrumah and Azikiwe. Continue reading →