What Is Wrong With Us: A continent cannot be built forever in the future tense
Africa's more than 1.5 billion people have heard every promise a podium can produce. They have been promised industrialisation, jobs, affordable housing, reliable electricity, good schools and modern hospitals at election rallies, inaugurations, investment forums and continental summits. Some of those promises were kept, and others produced real if incomplete progress, but far too many remain suspended somewhere between an…
Africa's more than 1.5 billion people have heard every promise a podium can produce. They have been promised industrialisation, jobs, affordable housing, reliable electricity, good schools and modern hospitals at election rallies, inaugurations, investment forums and continental summits. Some of those promises were kept, and others produced real if incomplete progress, but far too many remain suspended somewhere between an…