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What are the biggest challenges facing Africa (in the 21st century)?
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Africa is huge, diverse, and complicated, and with unbelievable human and natural resources....It is difficult to make sense of what is going on in the continent, how the continent interacts with the rest of the world, and how America might best pursue its national interests and the global common good in its relations with Africa.
However, my optimism is sometimes sorely tested when it comes to my beloved birth continent, Africa.
So my question is: What are the biggest challenges facing Africa going forward ?
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L'auto-suffisance électrique sera le facteur déclencheur d'une plus forte industrialisation qui à son tour facilitera l'auto-suffisance alimentaire par une mécanisation plus accrue de l'agriculture.
A côté de ces défis cités plus haut, il ne faut surtout pas négliger d'autres comme la digitalisation , innovation et surtout le défi technologique."
le plus grand defis pour elle je crois est stabilité politique et economique.
La démocratie y est encor enpiétiné et cela génère parfois des crise politco-militaire
La corruption a grande echelle a fini par mettre a plat une economie deja au ralenti.
pour ma par je crois que la stabilité politique et economique est les fondements du develloppement
And also, what about Ghana, a model for Africa?"
yes in west africa ghana can be a model.
If we witness today this great migration to Europe of young Africans is precisely due to this situation.
there is so much to exploit to create (energy, infrastructure ...)
Africa is a vast project where everyone can play a role."
The problem of corruption is also a cancer that is killing most economies and has alot of downeffects including inequality. The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming unimaginable.
among the major handicaps of the continent at the dawn of the 21st century are also the low level of education of a large number of Africans, the absence of modern production techniques, transport, a fragmented political space, and extroverted structure of economies.
it is important to point out that with its recent political transformations, governance issues are still part of the great challenges facing our continent. Africa is still living in the paradox of having poor populations living in countries that are bursting with important natural resources.
Nevertheless, we are seeing considerable progress in the African economy.
New technologies such as ICT play a crucial role in the social, economic and political development of the continent.
The Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Ghana ... are today the countries that are shaking up the economy in Africa.
How can Africa take its future into its own hands and make this century its rebirth?
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In my view Africa's problem is Lack of good governance resulted from traditional way of leading our continent to eradicate this we need to work hard on technology so that all the government body becomes filled with educated leaders and employees then we Start using our skilled population all the offices become transparent and rule of law will be respected rather than respecting our old leaders.
Thank you
One solution to make Africa a better continent to live in; is to increased financial support for growth-sustaining infrastructure—ports, transport links, information and communication technology—in the leading countries where economic takeoff is most likely, as well as infrastructure to link the markets of large leading countries with labor, capital, goods, and ideas in smaller neighbors.
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Income tax cuts will help boost retained income which is vital for company growth.
Lastly, capital is expensive especially for SMEs due to their risk profiles and lack of collateral. Thus SME need to financially included by offering them finance at reasonable costs.
Financial literacy lacks and this affects the level of financial development"
Ok, bad governance and endemic corruption are great problems...because in my opinion most of African Countries didn´t found governance systems that whereby their population feel included. Most African problems, need an African solutions, not imported models that simply doesn´t fit here. There are some good examples already in Africa, ex Cape Verde, but let be honest is a small country with 600.000 inhabitants...big countries with millions of people with marked ethinc differences...its simply not easy, that is my opinion the frist big challenge...African Models of Governance.
Second Challenge is getting rid of the " Dutch Disease" , making the natural resources financing the other sectors and not killing them. Fristly investing in infrastrutures...a lot of participants in the forum meantioned about education, which I agree is a key factor, but can we image a good school without proper facilities? Energy, Water...acess roads with adeqauted means of transportation for teacher and students?
Third Challenge, making Africa attrative to Capital and Brains. Capital knows no borders and it moves to where it found conditions to grow. Brains are crucial to develop and train teachers...that train students. For example, It would be measurable the impact of the imported brains had on the US development?
With the political stability, and the basics infrastuctures build, Africa opurtonities will shine, then Capital and Brains move to here...and the rest is Economy...it seems easy isn´t it?
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