Tension, is the word that I would use to describe academic and practitioner perspectives on Africa.
A devotion to the obsessive pursuit of knowledge within a narrow and sharply defined area is one way to view academic research endeavours; in ‘The Bottom Billion’ Paul Collier describes research as an intense but very narrow beam of light. [...]

Now in its 8th year, Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2008 is led by the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. To keep the concept fresh and challenging, we innovated by inviting Oxford’s finest together with enterprising European pioneers to gatecrash the prestigious Silicon Valley party in a series of debates, arguments, discussions, experiments and [...]