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The curriculum

Ten common-core courses every credentialed pathway requires, twelve schools covering the real responsibilities of public office, and a pathway for your role. Nobody needs to complete the whole catalogue.

What is published today: none of it. The curriculum below is the structure being written and reviewed. Nothing is released until it carries its sources, its licence and a review date, and no course claims to exist before it does.

The common core

Ten courses, each producing something usable rather than a certificate of attendance.

  1. Public Office as a Trust

    Produces: Personal public service covenant

  2. The State, the Government and the Party

    Produces: State–party boundary map

  3. Nation Building in a Plural Society

    Produces: Inclusive national narrative brief

  4. Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law

    Produces: Constitutional risk check

  5. People First Decision Making

    Produces: Public interest impact note

  6. Evidence and Policy Reasoning

    Produces: Policy evidence canvas

  7. Ethics, Conflicts and Corruption

    Produces: Conflict of interest plan

  8. Governing Across Difference

    Produces: Cross-party negotiation plan

  9. From Promise to Delivery

    Produces: Delivery chain map

  10. Leaving Institutions Stronger

    Produces: Institutional legacy plan

Twelve schools

Around 170 courses in total when complete. Emerging Governance is a rolling set of short courses kept current rather than a fixed list.

  • Nationhood and Democratic Politics

    20 courses

    How African states were formed, citizenship and belonging, federalism, parties as democratic institutions, and peaceful transfers of power.

  • National Direction and Continuity

    20 courses

    Diagnosing a nation, choosing generational outcomes, linking plans to budgets, and protecting a roadmap across administrations.

  • Public Leadership and Judgement

    15 courses

    Decision-making under uncertainty, cabinet selection, crisis leadership, and public communication without propaganda.

  • Institutions and Public Administration

    15 courses

    How the state actually works: the civil service, machinery of government, records and handover, administrative law, digital government.

  • Public Money and Economic Statecraft

    20 courses

    National accounts, taxation, budgets and audit, debt sustainability, procurement, industrial policy and resource revenue.

  • Negotiation and National Interest

    20 courses

    Valuing what the country is giving away: resource licences, infrastructure finance, debt restructuring, technology and climate deals.

  • Delivery and Public Services

    18 courses

    From cabinet decision to frontline service: delivery plans, monitoring, education, health, water, electricity, transport and safety.

  • Legislature and Oversight

    12 courses

    Representation, lawmaking, budget scrutiny, committee hearings, appointments and treaties, and constituency service without patronage.

  • Peace, Security and Resilience

    12 courses

    Civilian control of armed forces, conflict prevention, rights-respecting responses, election security and emergency powers.

  • African Development History

    12 courses

    Causal reasoning rather than hero worship: precolonial systems, partition, independence, structural adjustment, democratisation, AfCFTA.

  • Ethical Exit and Legacy

    8 courses

    Term limits and the duty to leave, succession without anointing, records, and measuring a legacy through institutions.

  • Emerging Governance

    Rolling

    Short courses kept current: artificial intelligence, critical minerals, climate displacement, digital identity and platform power.

Pathways by role

Many people move between civil society, party, government and professional life, so a learner may hold more than one role. Recommendations will always explain why an item was recommended.

  • Student and community leaderFoundations of Public Leadership
  • Aspiring candidateReady to Run, Ready to Govern
  • Party member or campaign teamParty to Public Service
  • LegislatorEffective Legislator
  • Mayor and local leaderGoverning Where People Live
  • Minister, governor and adviserThe First 100 Days
  • President or transition teamPresidential Transition
  • Civil servantPublic Service Practice
  • Opposition leaderLoyal Opposition
  • Journalist and civil societyFollow the Decision

Flagship programmes

  • The First 100 Days

    Moving from campaign organisation to lawful government: the condition of the state and its finances, continuity, appointments, priorities, inherited contracts, delivery rhythm, honest communication, integrity controls and a realistic first-year plan.

    See the programme

  • Nation Before Party

    What belongs to the enduring state and what an elected government may legitimately change: democratic restraint, equal citizenship in a plural nation, the role of opposition between elections, protecting professional institutions from partisan capture, and political memory.

    In preparation

  • Building the National Roadmap

    Diagnosis, civic identity, foresight, national outcomes, consultation, milestones, budgets, institutional owners, subnational alignment, public dashboards, handover rules and a lawful revision mechanism.

    In preparation

  • Negotiate for the Nation

    A mineral concession, a railway public-private partnership, a sovereign debt restructuring, a cloud and digital identity procurement, a regional trade dispute and a climate finance agreement.

    In preparation