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A time for reflection on Africa’s future: Another is upon us and, well, remains Africa. It is a uniquely beautiful, rich continent with a huge dividend but also fiscally and socially the poorest in terms of development opportunities and outcomes.

Gloomy headlines on Africa are recurrent in the international — such as , , crisis, political impasse, , illegal migration and poor governance. Yet, somehow, life continues.

To transform Africa, this business-as-usual attitude must stop.

must take the lead on their future. Africa must no longer be defined from the outside by , and even well-meaning who teach courses like African and development studies, often to Africans in faraway lands who ought to know this issue better than their instructors given their lived experience.

One of the first points of ignorance that Africans must enlighten the on is that Africa is not a country, with one people.

It is vast, diverse and rich in macro- and micro traditions that span centuries. https://lnkd.in/dKevY_H

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