Africa: From a Scar to a Success Story

opinion

When the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) was founded in 1964, Africa had great aspirations. Those aspirations were to be challenged in subsequent years by economic decline, political instability and geopolitics. But they never died. Men and women of goodwill soldiered on.

When I assumed office in 2005, Africa was at a turning point, beginning to reverse years of decline, registering the first positive real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth in almost two decades.

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