Events

Where the work is said out loud.

Name: Institutions that outlive their founders
Start: 2027-02-19
Location: Policy institute

Launches for What Light Cannot Touch, keynotes, festival panels and closed roundtables. For programme committees and bureaus, the speaking pack lives on the speaking page.

Upcoming

Book launch

17 September 2026

Johannesburg · Rosebank

What Light Cannot Touch — Johannesburg launch

First public reading from the memoir, followed by a conversation on memory, the archive and the cost of the record.

Open to the publicRegister interest

Festival

3 October 2026

Cape Town · District Six

Open Book Festival — memoir and the archive

Panel appearance on writing political memoir in a country still negotiating what it is willing to remember.

Open to the publicRegister interest

Keynote

12 November 2026

Nairobi · Africa investment summit

Reading power where it is exercised

Keynote on veto-point mapping for investors and the resolution problem in continental risk analysis.

Open to the publicRegister interest

Roundtable

28 November 2026

Beijing · Bilateral forum

Africa–China contracting: closing the expectation gap

Closed roundtable with counterpart negotiators on relationship maintenance structures inside long-horizon agreements.

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Conference

19 February 2027

London · Policy institute

Institutions that outlive their founders

Lecture and Q&A on succession design in African public, private and philanthropic institutions.

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The Dispatch

Occasional letters on power, memory and the record.

New essays, publication news and speaking dates. Sent rarely, never shared.

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