This week, I sat down to a scrumptious dinner with the industrious Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, a professor of history and African and African American studies, and the Oppenheimer faculty director of the Centre for African Studies at Harvard University.Our conversation turned to what we think is the fundamental problem with leadership in Africa.My submission was that we have way too many old people leading Africa. In the words of 47-year-old Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, "the pace of change [in the world] has never been this fast, and yet it will never be this slow again". We live in a dynamic world propelled by rapid technological advancement. In January 2018, management consultancy McKinsey spoke to more than 300 leaders in industrial corporations, think-tanks, governments and industry associations about the implications of technological disruption. The conclusion was that industrial sectors will see more disruption within the next five years than in the past ...
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