Diaspora by Design: Series Hub
This series explores how diaspora communities can be engaged as structural infrastructure for governance, sovereignty, and statecraft. Each article builds on the last. Start from Part I and continue.
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The Unseen Engine
This is the first article in Diaspora by Design, a four-part series, framing the diaspora as strategic knowledge infrastructure, developed by the Mshindo Policy Lab (MPL) in collaboration with the SAiD Institute ahead of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly. Each piece challenges dominant diaspora narratives and builds the case for a new statecraft grounded in distributed African power.
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Education in the Age of Innovation
In the first article, The Unseen Engine, we surfaced a core blind spot: African governments continue to overlook their own diaspora knowledge infrastructure. This is not because it doesn’t exist, but because no state architecture has been built to see or use it. This article advances the argument by focusing on one of the most urgent domains for policy transformation: education in the age of AI.
Mechanisms That Matter
This is the third article in the Diaspora by Design series, a four-part policy arc developed by the Mshindo Policy Lab (MPL) in collaboration with the SAiD Institute , in the lead-up to the 2025 United Nations General Assembly. Part I surfaced the blind spot in diaspora visibility. Part II demonstrated how diaspora actors are already shaping the future …
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The Playbook
This is the final installment in Diaspora by Design, a four-part policy arc developed by the Mshindo Policy Lab (MPL) in collaboration with the SAiD Institute for the 2025 United Nations General Assembly. The first three entries surfaced diaspora as infrastructure, mapped its presence inside AI-era governance, and named the institutional mechanisms requ…
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