Strategic Priorities in Contemporary Africa

In the last of a three-piece series for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Richard Joseph examines Africa's "prismatic narrative," in which African developments must be viewed "through the prism of how key dimensions interrelate and the complex interplay of local, regional, and global factors."

Newspaper vendor outside a polling station during the 2011 elections in Nigeria.

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