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With 54 countries, the African continent encompasses opportunity and success as well as conflict and ongoing economic, development and political challenges. Brookings experts are currently addressing a number of pressing issues in the sub-Saharan region, including the ongoing strife between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan, famine in the Horn of Africa, and the region’s huge growth potential.
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South Africa has been good to [Zimbabwean President Robert] Mugabe because he was good to them in the darkest years of that country’s long freedom movement. I don’t think they would ever call for diaspora voting rights because they know it would work against Mugabe and he would see it as direct opposition. July 31, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Christian Science Monitor
South Africa has been good to [Zimbabwean President Robert] Mugabe because he was good to them in the darkest years of that country’s long freedom movement. I don’t think they would ever call for diaspora voting rights because they know it would work against Mugabe and he would see it as direct opposition.
For a president who has been really absent in Africa, this was a good thing. It was a good start. It was a good signal. July 2, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, PBS Newshour
For a president who has been really absent in Africa, this was a good thing. It was a good start. It was a good signal.
On the policy side, Africans have been largely disappointed, especially when they look at the focus on Africa by the previous presidents. Africans have a feeling that President Obama is still not in tune with the emerging continent. June 25, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Wall Street Journal
On the policy side, Africans have been largely disappointed, especially when they look at the focus on Africa by the previous presidents. Africans have a feeling that President Obama is still not in tune with the emerging continent.
Africans still consider Clinton their president. If you go to Africa and mention Clinton, he is a hero, even today. I don’t think President Obama is going to approach the level of President Clinton at all, in terms of respect, in terms of what they feel. June 25, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Washington Post
Africans still consider Clinton their president. If you go to Africa and mention Clinton, he is a hero, even today. I don’t think President Obama is going to approach the level of President Clinton at all, in terms of respect, in terms of what they feel.
Africans have been wondering what happened to their son...They have seen the Chinese leaders on their continent so frequently now, that they know more about Beijing than Washington. June 21, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, AFP
Africans have been wondering what happened to their son...They have seen the Chinese leaders on their continent so frequently now, that they know more about Beijing than Washington.
Interview
June 20, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Witney Schneidman and Haroon Bhorat
A lot depends on what you do with the investment you attract. [If Ghana sells bond after bond so it can build a string of gold-plated palaces, not so helpful. But if, after Nigeria updates its GDP, foreign investors fly to Lagos to meet up with the app designers at Pledge 51, that's clearly a good thing.] That's one of the good examples of where this can have a positive impact. May 31, 2013, John Page, National Public Radio
A lot depends on what you do with the investment you attract. [If Ghana sells bond after bond so it can build a string of gold-plated palaces, not so helpful. But if, after Nigeria updates its GDP, foreign investors fly to Lagos to meet up with the app designers at Pledge 51, that's clearly a good thing.] That's one of the good examples of where this can have a positive impact.
Expert Q & A
May 13, 2013, Chaloka Beyani
[A large group of people are currently hovering near the $1.25-a-day poverty line.] It is a dismal reflection of human progress, but it also has an upside. The potential for further poverty reduction over the immediate future is there for the taking. May 9, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Washington Post
[A large group of people are currently hovering near the $1.25-a-day poverty line.] It is a dismal reflection of human progress, but it also has an upside. The potential for further poverty reduction over the immediate future is there for the taking.
[Kenya's] economy has changed a lot, but we still have a traditional sector that has not changed a lot and that traditional sector is where, I think, [President Uhuru Kenyatta] and his deputy are going to concentrate. April 10, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Al Jazeera English
[Kenya's] economy has changed a lot, but we still have a traditional sector that has not changed a lot and that traditional sector is where, I think, [President Uhuru Kenyatta] and his deputy are going to concentrate.
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