In 2025, we are witnessing how destructive it can be when the most economically powerful, but minority, countries make decisions that affect the rest of the world's well-being. During this time of instability and change within the aid and development sectors, people are asking "what next?"Kuja has done a lot of thinking about what the future of a new system can look like - building on the decades of efforts to localise aid and development, #ShiftThePower, and decolonise. To be able to consider "what next?" - we must understand "how did we get here?"This course will support you to unpack the foundations of aid and development - and fully grasp the ways it was built on centuries of inequality.