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African Macro 101Public Finance & TaxationDevelopment EconomicsMicroeconomics for African MarketsBehavioural and Household EconomicsGame Theory: Strategy, Conflict & Cooperation in AfricaPolitical Economy & InstitutionsPublic Choice & Collective DecisionsGovernance, Corruption & State CapacityTax Policy & AdministrationPublic Budgeting & Financial ManagementCost–Benefit Analysis & Project AppraisalMonetary Policy & Central BankingSovereign Debt & Capital MarketsExchange Rates & International MacroeconomicsInternational Trade PolicyAfCFTA & Regional IntegrationIndustrial Policy & CompetitionImpact Evaluation & Randomised TrialsSurvey Data, Measurement & IndicatorsSQL for AnalystsSQL Intermediate — Analytical PatternsSQL Advanced — Systems and OptimisationPython for Economists, A to ZR for Applied ResearchersStata for EconomistsEconometrics from First PrinciplesData Visualization & StorytellingTableau for AnalystsPower BI for AnalystsAccounting FundamentalsReading a Financial StatementCredit — From First Principles to DistressedCorporate FinancingBonds — All You Need to KnowEquities — All You Need to KnowInvestment Banks: The Complete GuideDCF Valuation: From Forecast to Defensible NumberReal Estate Finance & InvestmentTrading — Markets, Microstructure, and ExecutionSustainable & Climate FinanceLinear Algebra for Quant FinanceProbability & Statistics for FinanceTime Series for FinanceOptimization for FinancePortfolio TheoryStochastic Calculus for FinanceNumerical Methods for FinanceAI for Economists & AnalystsAfrican Macro 101Public Finance & TaxationDevelopment EconomicsMicroeconomics for African MarketsBehavioural and Household EconomicsGame Theory: Strategy, Conflict & Cooperation in AfricaPolitical Economy & InstitutionsPublic Choice & Collective DecisionsGovernance, Corruption & State CapacityTax Policy & AdministrationPublic Budgeting & Financial ManagementCost–Benefit Analysis & Project AppraisalMonetary Policy & Central BankingSovereign Debt & Capital MarketsExchange Rates & International MacroeconomicsInternational Trade PolicyAfCFTA & Regional IntegrationIndustrial Policy & CompetitionImpact Evaluation & Randomised TrialsSurvey Data, Measurement & IndicatorsSQL for AnalystsSQL Intermediate — Analytical PatternsSQL Advanced — Systems and OptimisationPython for Economists, A to ZR for Applied ResearchersStata for EconomistsEconometrics from First PrinciplesData Visualization & StorytellingTableau for AnalystsPower BI for AnalystsAccounting FundamentalsReading a Financial StatementCredit — From First Principles to DistressedCorporate FinancingBonds — All You Need to KnowEquities — All You Need to KnowInvestment Banks: The Complete GuideDCF Valuation: From Forecast to Defensible NumberReal Estate Finance & InvestmentTrading — Markets, Microstructure, and ExecutionSustainable & Climate FinanceLinear Algebra for Quant FinanceProbability & Statistics for FinanceTime Series for FinanceOptimization for FinancePortfolio TheoryStochastic Calculus for FinanceNumerical Methods for FinanceAI for Economists & Analysts

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Learning Paths

10 disciplines. Start anywhere.

The public-economics core leads — African macro, public finance, political economy, trade and integration. The analytical skills that carry it, from data to finance to quant, follow. Each path is a curated sequence with live in-browser practice and skills tests.

Path 01

Economics

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Macro, public finance, micro, and development — applied to African markets.

A complete economics curriculum focused on African economies: macro and central-banking, public finance and tax, microeconomics, development economics, and behavioural / household economics. Practical, not academic — grounded in the structural features that make African markets behave differently from the textbook.

6 courses58 modules
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Path 02

Political Economy & Governance

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Why good economics wins or loses in the real world of power.

Institutions, state capacity, collective action, and the political economy of reform — plus the public-choice analysis of voting, bureaucracy, and interest groups, and the economics of corruption and governance. The half of policy that pure economics leaves out.

3 courses24 modules
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Path 03

Public Finance & Tax Policy

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How governments raise money, spend it, and decide what's worth it.

The applied public-finance specialization: designing and administering taxes, planning and managing public budgets, and appraising public spending with cost–benefit analysis. Built on the Kenyan and East African fiscal architecture.

3 courses24 modules
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Path 04

Macroeconomics & Monetary Policy

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Central banking, sovereign debt, and the open economy — from the inside.

The macro-policy specialization: how a central bank conducts monetary policy under developing-economy constraints, how sovereign debt is issued and restructured, and how exchange rates and the balance of payments tie a small open economy to the global cycle.

3 courses24 modules
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Path 05

Trade, Industry & Integration

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Trade policy, industrial policy, and the continental market.

The external-sector and structural-transformation specialization: the theory and instruments of trade policy, African regional integration and the AfCFTA, and the industrial and competition policy that shapes what an economy produces.

3 courses24 modules
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Path 06

Data & Methods for Policy

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Knowing whether a policy worked — and measuring it honestly.

The applied-methods specialization for policy: impact evaluation and randomised trials, the quasi-experimental toolkit, and the survey design and measurement that every policy number depends on. Pairs with the Econometrics, Stata, and R courses in the Data Analysis path.

2 courses16 modules
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Path 09

Quant Finance Math

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The mathematics behind portfolios, derivatives, and risk.

A complete quantitative-finance mathematics curriculum — linear algebra, probability and statistics, time series, optimisation, portfolio theory, stochastic calculus, and the numerical methods that turn formulas into prices. Built for analysts who want the rigour of a top-tier MFE programme paired with the practitioner standards of a Morgan Stanley desk, with worked examples grounded in African and emerging-market data.

7 courses77 modules
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Path 10

AI

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What every analyst needs to know about modern AI.

From foundations to deployment. The AI for Economists & Analysts course is the wedge product — a complete, premium curriculum that takes you from 'what is a token' to building a RAG application against your own data, with the AI tutor available in every module.

1 courses12 modules
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