Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045, half of which will be living in cities, and this group will be connected through mobile devices. Making Africa Work is a practical account of how to ensure that these will be positive forces for...
Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045, half of which will be living in cities, and this group will be connected through mobile devices. Making Africa Work is a practical account of how to ensure that these will be positive forces for change and how to create growth beyond commodities.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected through mobile devices. Properly harnessed and planned for, these are positive forces for change. Without economic growth and jobs, they could prove a political and social catastrophe. Old systems of patronage and muddling through will no longer work. Making Africa Work is a practical account of how to ensure growth beyond commodities, and to create jobs. It's a handbook for dynamic leadership inside and outside the continent.
Major General Dickie Davis is an associate of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, and the MD of Nant Enterprises. Since leaving the British Army in 2015, where he served for 31 years and on operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan, he has worked mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. He is co-author of A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence.
