Making Africa Work — insights from West Africa
The road from state weakness to strength is most likely under decisive domestic leadership that is committed to popular welfare
We have just completed a tour to launch Making Africa Work across eight West Africa locations: Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. The book’s central proposition is that Africa will have to change its business-as-usual approach if it is to create the economic growth and jobs for its upcoming demographic surge. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double its population between now and 2050 to two billion people. The eight launch programmes involved not fewer than two current prime ministers (Mali and Niger), five current presidents (Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, and Niger), a minister as a keynote speaker at every event and multiple cabinet members in the cases of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and three former presidents. They involved more than 1,400 attendees, 35 television feeds, and over 100 journalists. For the eight countries exemplify this challenge. At independence their populations totalled 75 million, of which Nigeria mad...
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