The best independent research houses do not chase every front at once. They pick the question of the decade and own it. Ours is The Great Reallocation: the historic recomposition of who finances Africa's development. In 2025, global aid fell 23% - 26% for sub-Saharan Africa - and the retreat has not stopped: the OECD projects a further 11.6% in 2026. Into the gap move philanthropy, diaspora and AI capital, recomposing the continent's funding at a speed no institution records. What record exists lies in fragments - scattered across donor portals, registries and annual reports that answer to different logics and never to each other - while the field's seat of reference stands vacant since Development Initiatives closed in 2025. Kwetchi Intelligence is the defragmentation layer and the intelligence built upon it: one continuous, sourced ledger of who allocates, who receives and where the proof is - every entry traced to its original document - and, on top of the ledger, the analysis that turns the record into decisions. Tomorrow, the same ledger will answer questions directly: interrogate it in plain language - who finances what, since when, on whose terms - and receive the sourced answer, proof attached. That privilege will belong to our paying readers.
| You are | Your question | What Kwetchi Intelligence gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations & African philanthropies Strategy directors, programme leads, boards - African philanthropies and global foundations with Africa portfolios |
Who funds what, where, and what is retreating around us? | The living map of grantmaking flows on your theme, every figure traced to its source. |
| DFIs & development agencies Partnership and strategy units at development finance institutions and bilateral agencies |
Where do our flows overlap, duplicate or leave gaps? | Cross-source reallocation analysis with an audit trail your boards can verify. |
| Researchers & journalists Scholars and reporters covering development finance and African philanthropy |
Can I cite this figure in a publication? | Yes. That is the point. Citable in peer review, defensible in print. |
Kwetchi Intelligence is the operational continuation of nearly a decade of interdisciplinary research, public speaking and advocacy on how societies count, fund and remember themselves. That journey has taken its founder, Ezekiel Kwetchi Takam, from fieldwork across the African continent to research journeys in Paris, Geneva, Cambridge, Harvard, and beyond: from African universities and policy forums to the international institutions where development finance is governed. The same question ran through every stop: who gets to be seen, counted, and remembered by those who allocate? Kwetchi Intelligence is the answer built as a discipline: an independent research house keeping the continuous, verifiable map of the flows that finance Africa's development, for the peoples whose realities have too long been scattered, invisible, or narrated by others. It is the embodiment of a personal conviction and engagement; research turned into infrastructure.
The house's investigations, each one a step in making our mission real. The shelf opens on our two founding studies, available in early access, and reads sideways - slide it to browse every title. One promise, whichever door you choose: you will never again have to ask who allocates, who receives - or where the proof is.
Africa enters the AI era with a structural data deficit: 1.4 billion people, over 2,000 languages, and about 42 of them supported by today's systems. This study proposes the mechanism that finances the civic data layer - from a $5 million ignition round to $50 million by 2035. In collaboration with TrustAfrica.
Data sovereignty, taken back from the state and returned to the community: a critical reading of the African Union's approach through Ubuntu's relational ethics, and the case for philanthropy to fund community data trusts, cooperatives and commons. In collaboration with CAPSI (Wits Business School) and the Mastercard Foundation.
The first sourced map of the philanthropic money entering Africa's AI ecosystem: which foundations fund the models, the language datasets, the labs and the policy work - who receives, what was announced versus what arrived, and where the proof is. In collaboration with CAPSI (Wits Business School).
One issue a week on the Great Reallocation. Hold us to our proofs.
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