Structural Transformation

Probably the most prominent Mandela quote has become “It always seems impossible until it’s done”. It encapsulates the history of the man, its nation and indeed the aspirations of a whole continent. Countless documents, conferences, processes, activities have targeted regional integration as the response to the pan-African dreams that energized the liberation movements post-second World

Africa’s prospects are again being questioned for many reasons: some quite familiar, like commodity prices, debt or conflict; others less so, such as climate change, technology or migration. To link the fortunes of a continent to its natural resources bounty should have been positive. Indeed, Africa has been blessed with mineral wealth, a remarkable blue

Conventional wisdom tells us that the Chinese are buying up Africa faster than any other investors. It tells us that African banking lags in terms of innovation and reliability and that no African country is at the forefront of global innovation. But conventional wisdom is often wrong and it is important to recognise that we