Archive - Canary Compass

Permission to Ask

A referee refused, a stadium priced out, and the difference between who is let in and who can afford to be there

Jun 10 • Dean Onyambu

ZAMBIA MACRO NOTE: The Most Expensive Recovery

Bond B, the Composite Indicator, and the Price of Macro Improvement

Jun 5 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: Africa Wants Integration Without Consequence. Ebola, and Other Things

AI-illustration: Pick a struggle.

Jun 5 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA ENERGY SERIES: Misaligned Transition

Part 5 of 5: Whose Transition?

Jun 3 • Dean Onyambu

May 2026

Friday Reflections: The Morning Ritual

AI-illustration: The joke was the entry.

May 29 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA ENERGY SERIES: Misaligned Transition

Part 4 of 5: Misaligned Capital

May 28 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA ENERGY SERIES: Misaligned Transition

Part 3 of 5: Two Lanes

May 26 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: AI May Be Too Infectious for Its Own Good

May 22

AFRICA ENERGY SERIES: Misaligned Transition

Part 2 of 5: The China Ceiling

May 22 • Dean Onyambu

AFRICA ENERGY SERIES: Misaligned Transition

Part 1 of 5: The Taxonomy Problem

May 18 • Dean Onyambu

Friday Reflections: Pan-African Discourse Has Lost Its Marbles

AI-generated image of the negotiation nobody attended.

May 15 • Dean Onyambu

ZAMBIA MACRO NOTE: Seven Stars That Refuse to Align

The MPC Cuts Again. The Fiscal and Financing Convergence, May 2026.

May 13 • Dean Onyambu

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