Kurtis Lockhart
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Kurtis Lockhart is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 10, 2024 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Kurtis Lockhart, $100,000 , to help build a campus for the African School of Economics”; “Kurtis Lockhart, $85K , to continue research into African urbanism”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, ACX Grants, African School of Economics.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 10, 2024
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Martin (2 shared issues)
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- Anton Makiievskyi (2 shared issues)
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- Austin Chen (2 shared issues)
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- Calvin French-Owen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- Clara Collier (2 shared issues)
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- Coalition To Modify NOTA (2 shared issues)
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- Elaine Perlman (2 shared issues)
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- Greg Sadler (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Kurtis Lockhart, $100,000, to help build a campus for the African School of Economics in Fumba, Zanzibar. We talked recently about the difficulty of using charity to accelerate market development in lower-income countries, so I was delighted to come across such a perfect opportunity. I’m especially excited about being able to do this in Fumba, the Charter Cities Institute’s “flagship new cities project” in Africa.
Kurtis Lockhart, $85K, to continue research into African urbanism. Africa suffers from a sort of malignant anarcho-tyrannical NIMBYism, where the ability to build good urban infrastructure like roads, sanitation systems, or apartment buildings is gated behind an impossible series of permits and applications that the government never grants, but it’s easy to build endless illegal shantytowns. Kurtis runs the African Urban Lab, a joint project of the African School of Economics in Zanzibar and the Charter Cities Institute. They hope to build an “African YIMBY movement” within African academia/government to improve the situation in time to help the 900 million new people predicted to move to African cities in the next 25 years. Our grant will fund road planning advocacy, a satellite-based land tax system, and improvements to African universities’ urban planning curricula. Read more about Kurtis’ agenda in his Asterisk article, Yes In My Bamako Yard.