Curiosity Unbounded, Ep. 2: Bureaucracies, dictatorships, and the power of Africa’s people

In this episode, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sits down with Mai Hassan, a newly tenured associate professor of political science. Hassan's work focuses on bureaucracy, public administration, and the state in Africa, and more recently, how people mobilize against repressive dictatorships. (Read the transcript: https://news.mit.edu/2023/curiosity-unbounded-podcast-mai-hassan-0509)

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