The problem Every society has work that must be done and cannot be sold. The barn after the fire. The drainage ditch before the spring. The canal dug by hand because there is no capital to dig it any other way. The widow’s roof. The market will not supply this labour, because the market prices…
INTRODUCTION: A SYMPTOM, NOT AN ANOMALY The suspension of Tata Chemicals Magadi‘s mining licence on 28 July 2026 should not be read as an isolated regulatory dispute. It is a diagnostic entry point into a deeper structural pathology: the systematic divergence between regional integration commitments and domestic regulatory practice in East Africa. On that date,…