On 2 March in Gabon, West Africa, President Macron declared that ‘the days of France-Afrique are over’. Since the early nineteenth century the African continent has emblazoned France’s aspiration to international power status.
The Paris mansion was seized after the west African nation’s vice-president, Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, was convicted of embezzling public money to fund his lavish lifestyle.
China, Africa’s largest bilateral lender, waived debt owed by 17 countries in the continent for 23 interest-free loans that were due in 2021.
To be exact, more than half of African youth aged between 18 and 24 are likely to consider emigrating in the next three years if their governments do nothing to improve the quality of their lives.
Asia gets the attention, but the real economic revolution is the inevitable growth of an overlooked continent.
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