Lai'Latif Talks

The True Cost of Gold

G.A.M.B.L.E. How to spot red flags in debt contracts

African Debts

Tax, AI and Algorithmic Colonisation

A new alternative to World Bank and IMF

A conversation on debt contracts

Legal foundations of public debt

Discussing fintech driven tax justice - looking at the role of faith based organisations in supporting redistribution at the Tax Justice Network's Annual Conference.

Discussing the colonial impact on Kenya's fiscal system

Discussing the colonial impact on Kenya's fiscal system

Briefing on the role of female parliamentarians in ensuring gender justice as part of the taxation of the extractives sector

My conversation with the Warwick based IEL Collective on discussing the role and impact of Digital Technologies in sub Saharan Africa.

The Nexus Between Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows (my speech starts from 3h:56mins to 4h 10mins).

Fintech Briefing - who do we tax? The consumer?

Fiscal Activism

Discussion on 'financialisation with impact' and a move towards an alternative economic model for Africa (my input begins at 1.19.00)

Tax and SDGs

FfD4 - Going Forward

Speaking to over 100 participants from West African states, focusing on the digital economy and its taxation. The session examined the structural challenges that digital business models pose to conventional tax frameworks, with particular attention to the domestic resource mobilisation implications for revenue authorities and policymakers across the region.

Zakat

Digital Economy - Need for a fair tax model

Zakat and Sukuk - the real deal!

This session examines gender bias in tax policy across three distinct registers: explicit bias encoded in law, implicit bias arising from formally neutral provisions that interact with unequal social structures, and a third category proposed by Lyla Latif — algorithmic bias, whereby AI systems deployed in tax administration, education financing, and health governance reproduce and entrench gender inequalities through data that was never designed to account for women's economic lives. Drawing on case studies from the Netherlands, the United States, and across Africa, the session mapped the gendered fiscal consequences of digital services taxation, extractive sector incentives, and AI-driven audit and resource allocation systems, offering participants a practical framework for identifying bias across all three dimensions within their own jurisdictions.

This session unpacked the key outcomes of the 4th session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC) from a decolonial pan-African feminist perspective, assessed the gender justice implications of the draft articles and protocols, strategised around priority demands for Africa, and the opportunities that remain to influence the process through to its conclusion.