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About Kola Ibrahim

Kola Ibrahim is a researcher, scholar-activist and public intellectual. He is a prominent labour activist, writer and author from  Nigeria. He has authored more than ten (10) books and monographs, eight of which were sole authored. His books cover issues such global political economy, Africa’s development, working class and labour movement, youth and climate.  He has also written more than fifty essays and opinion articles, which have been published in national and international newspapers, magazines and journals. He is a research director of a newly formed and independent climate political economy think-tank, Africa Research Centre for Climate and Economic Justice  (ARCCEJ).
  • African forest elephants, lowland bongos and forest buffalos, Dzanga Sangha Special Reserve, Banks of the Sangha river, Central African Republic

    Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI): A classic case of climate funding fraud in Africa

    Kola Ibrahim

    Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI) was established in 2015 to protect the huge rainforests of the Congo Basin, which span six Central African countries: DR Congo, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Endogeneity Without Exception: Modern Monetary Theory & The Promise of Heterodoxy
    Kola Ibrahim

    Billy Saas and guest-host Will Beaman speak with Money on the Left’s own Scott Ferguson about his essay, “Endogeneity Without Exception: Modern Monetary Theory and the Promise of Heterodoxy,” published recently in the Journal of Economic Issues.

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Kola Ibrahim

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Kola Ibrahim

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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