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to the inaugural The Africa Report Debates elcome to the inaugural The Africa Report Debates – our new series of ‘tough talk’ on development issues. We believe African news and African thinkers often get short-changed in the global conversation. The Africa Report Debates aims to change that, by showcasing the continent’s brightest talents and sharpest intellects in a battle of ideas that resonate worldwide. Africa has a unique and vibrant role to play in shaping the key challenges of the century ahead. How can we balance the needs of developing nations with climate change? How can we rethink the sterile confrontation between state and market? How will the two billion Africans of tomorrow be clothed, fed and employed – and who will reap the benefit? All these things need a vigorous and public shaking out. The debate, in partnership with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, is the proper forum – a no-holds barred contest where no idea is too hot to handle, and where we can imagine our future together. The format is as follows. First, a public vote is taken on our proposition; “This house believes that development should take priority over democracy”. Then our two teams face off. They will each have an opening statement, followed by rejoinders by the other two discussants, who will attempt to find the logical inconsistencies and moral failures of the opposing arguments. After a brief debate led by the chair, we will then turn to our expert witnesses, who will be quizzed by our moderators and panellists. Finally, we turn to you, the audience, for your own remarks and questions. Following closing statements we will take another vote – and see which side has won the day. The event will be followed on our website, and on the website of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which will carry audio and video footage of the debate. The Africa Report celebrates its tenth birthday this year. Our opening decade as a publication has been rich in challenges, awards and surprises. We are grateful for your ongoing support as readers, and invite you to write to us. Let us know what your magazine should include over our next ten years.
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By Patrick Smith Nearly 60 years ago, founding President Kwame Nkrumah advised Ghanaians: “Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you.” Today we still have to pose the question: what political system would generate the greatest economic and social benefits? How can developing economies produce sustainable economic growth and jobs and invest in health and education? That is why our first debate asks whether economic development should take priority over political democracy. Across Africa, the governance question tops the political agenda. At the start of the 1990s, just two countries – Botswana and Mauritius – had an established tradition of multi-party politics but most of the region’s economies were faltering. Over the next two decades, most countries liberalised their political systems and recorded huge economic gains. By 2015, the picture has been transformed: over 90% of African countries hold competitive elections and the continent has produced an average growth rate of 5% over the past decade. But the economic struggle continues with over a third of Africa’s
people living in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank and 350 million young Africans due to join the labour market over the next 30 years. By then, Africa will have some two billion people, overtaking China and India by most estimates. This question of development and governance is critical. So the Africa Report debate is bringing together some of the top experts on the continent – politicians, policy-makers, business people, economists and political scientists -- to set out their ideas. We believe that Ghana is an ideal country to host this debate. It has experienced a wide range of political systems: authoritarian, military, transitional civilian and liberal democracy. It has also seen many different economic strategies: state-led industrialisation and import-substitution; IMF designed pro-market reforms and sweeping privatisations; and economic restructuring based on natural resource revenues and energy inputs. With this history and the assembled experts, we are confident that today’s debate will generate both insights and inspiration. •
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Editorial by Patrick Smith
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Democracy versus development
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Interview: Mo Ibrahim
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Democracy vs TAR debates The Africa Report, in association with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, is organising the inaugural session of The Africa Report Debates in Accra on 20 November to ask the question: Is democracy getting in the way of development?
By Patrick Smith
hen China’s President Xi Ji nping arrives in South Africa for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on 4-5 December, he will face a barrage of questions, private and public, about the health of his country’s economic relations with Africa’s 54 states. China, despite its slowdown and rebalancing, is still Africa’s second-largest trading partner after Europe, with trade worth more than $220bn in 2014. Many of the questions will be about the numbers and timeframes: whether, or perhaps when, will China’s imports of African resources return to the glory days of the commodity supercycle? How will China’s investments in African infrastructure be affected by Beijing’s policy shifts? Will China open more factories in Africa? There will also be some quieter, more strategic questions about tackling poverty and underdevelopment. In that area, China re-
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mains the world leader historically, with more than 400 million of its people climbing out of poverty in the past three decades (see page 20). Its success – along with that of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – has sparked a vibrant debate on development models in Africa. Getting the development strategy right – the balance between political pluralism and building a developmental state – will affect the lives of hundreds of millions. At once it is the biggest responsibility for governments: to ensure maximum social provision in terms of education and health along with growth and economic well-being and the freedom to pursue these. There is also a time imperative: more than 350 million young Africans are due to join the labour market over the next three decades, with Africa’s population due to hit two billion by 2050. As Africa becomes the fastest-urbanising continent, it could take advantage, like China, of the demographic dividend offered by this workforce and market. Failure could prove catastrophic, within and well beyond Africa’s shores.
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The ballot box and the building blocks: can they ever be mutually beneficial?
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Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, highlighted the human stakes when he went to Ghana on 16 October to launch ‘Poverty in a Rising Africa’, a new report based on 25 years of household surveys. “Africa’s economy is on the rise, but to avoid bypassing vulnerable people – whether in the rural areas or in fragile states – we must improve how we measure human progress,” he explained. Kim’s choice of Ghana drew attention to that country’s record of combining political pluralism and economic progress. Over the past three decades, Ghana has cut poverty by more than half, from 53% in 1991 to 21% in 2012, according to the World Bank. But, more widely, Africa’s last decade of strong growth failed to cut poverty significantly, the report says. It estimates that 388 million people were living in extreme poverty in Africa in 2012, compared to 284 million in 1990. However, as a percentage of the population the number had fallen – to 43% compared to 56% in 1990. However, as a percentage of the population the number had fallen THE AFRICA REPORT DEBATES - 20 November 2015 - Accra - Ghana
– to 43% compared to 56% in 1990. What, then, is the best form of attack on this poverty? In 1957, South Korea had a lower per capita gross domestic product than Ghana. Today, it is the thirteenth-largest economy in the world, partly because President Park Chung-hee’s authoritarian regime focused remorselessly on export-oriented industrialisation, which produced what became known as the ‘Miracle on the Han River’. The three pillars of Park’s strategy – land redistribution, exportoriented manufacturing and a closely controlled financial sector – were anathema to would-be advisers from the World Bank and the country’s business elite, who tried to co-opt him. Park’s methods appalled democracy’s promoters in the region: he seized power in a military coup in 1961, won election as a civilian president and changed the constitution’s term limits, before being assassinated by the head of his intelligence services in 1979. But the South Korean model is widely admired across Africa. It was a senior Kenyan civil servant
who put the point to The Africa Report a year ago: “Sometimes democracy – our politicians and civil society and their arguments – gets in the way development.” He was exasperated by local campaigns against the rebuilding of the Nairobi-Mombasa railway. Perhaps three governments in Africa – Ethiopia, Morocco and Rwanda – are producing substantial economic results with authoritarian political systems. An adviser to Ethiopia’s late Premier Meles Zenawi said that “state consolidation would have to take priority over democratisation. We need a state that has the capacity to deliver the basic social goods before we can talk about competitive partisan politics.” South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki warns against being too reductive on the issue: “We have to admit there are some authoritarian systems that are strengthening economies, and there are pluralist systems that do the same. It is a matter of degree, finding a balance.” A fellow South African, Thuli Madonsela, the public protector who has led the investigation into the state financing of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, says it is also a matter of history: “People have looked at why China works, why Singapore works. You always have to look back at traditions. There is no way in South Africa that that sort of option would work.” She explains: “South Africa is a society that was based on defiance […], that was built on challenging authoritarianism. So if the new government had become authoritarian, it would have been chaos from day one.” But even in economically successful states in Asia, Madonsela argues, political pressures will build up: “In countries like China, Singapore and Malaysia, they have authoritarian regimes, but those systems are not eternal. They will blow one day. We have seen cracks already.” ●
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INTERVIEW
Mo Ibrahim Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
There is another way of doing business The results of this year’s Ibrahim Index show the pace of progress is slowing, especially on security and economic opportunities. Holding private businesses and institutions accountable is the only way to improve governance, Mo Ibrahim says
hree key events provided a special focus for this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, which consists of 93 indicators and is produced by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation: the North African uprisings of 2011, the recovery in the United States after its financial crisis, and the end of the commodity supercycle. Although governance improved over the 2011-2014 period in two categories – human rights and human development and participation – it declined in the other two main categories: sustainable economic activity and safety and rule of law. Only six countries out of the 54 in Africa registered improvements in all four areas of governance. They were Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Rwanda and Senegal near the top of the index and Somalia and Zimbabwe near the bottom. Speaking to The Africa Report in London, Mo Ibrahim argues that trends identified
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by the index point to the need for widespread educational reform and a much more activist strategy to finance the job-creating small and medium-sized enterprises. TAR: This year you released your first governance index since the end of the commodity boom. What changes are you seeing on the ground? MO IBRAHIM: Unfortunately, many of our countries are dependent on commodities – mining activities, oil, gas – and they have failed to diversify their economies. I hope it is a lesson for the future to diversify our economies and to move away from this total dependency on a single natural resource. You look at what some of these resource-dependent countries have been doing and, again, corruption is a big issue. And if they don’t use the natural resources of a country at a time of boom to raise
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF MO 1946 Born in Sudan 1998 Started Celtel, an Africafocused telecoms company 2006 Founded the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage leadership and good governance 2007 Created Satya Capital, a private-equity fund
standards and produce a cushion, they won’t have anything for hard times when the market changes. It’s interesting to see some of our top performers in Africa are countries that are not resource rich, because that forces countries really to look at where they can grow their economy instead of just being laid back and dependent on oil or another resource. I hate to use that term ‘resource curse’, but […] when you are resource rich you tend to be lazy. On education, the Ibrahim Index says that although more pupils are being enrolled, the standards are not improving enough. What kind of education are we giving young people? Only 2% of university graduates study agriculture; 27% study humanities. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? So I ask our academics when was the last time they ● ● ●
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sat with some business people in their country to discuss what they need? Where are the jobs of tomorrow going to come from? What skills should we give to our kids? Sometimes it seems that our education system and the people involved – civil servants, ministers of education or administrators in our universities and colleges – are living in a bubble divorced from the life outside. We need to revise our curriculum and what we are teaching our kids. ●●●
Alongside economic opportunities, levels of security and the rule of law have been falling, according to the index. Why? Factors differ between countries. What happened in Libya affected us a lot – the huge amount of arms that actually came from the looting of the regime and from the weapons airdropped to all kinds of fighting groups. You know there are so many of those in Libya. This flooded the Sahel with weapons. Clearly, we created a problem with Libya. You say, are we any better off now in Libya than we were under [Muammar] Gaddafi? The answer is no. So that is the problem in the Sahel […]. There are also other problems arising from conflicts in Guinea and Mali. Look at South Sudan. Why is this killing taking place? Why are these crimes being committed? We have like a million displaced people, even more, in South Sudan now. Why? It’s just the naked ambition of warlords and political leaders whose only interest is personal power and personal fortunes, which appear to be linked together. And then they use tribal connections or whatever to turn what’s in essence a personal political agenda and greed into an ethnic fight in the country.You have some individuals there – each of them really want to own the country, so you can’t
see how peace would be achieved. How many agreements have we had? I think all those guys should be treated as war criminals – people dying, women being raped, villages being burned. What is the future of your governance index? Are you going to start looking at areas such as poverty or inequality? This is a debate within the foundation. It concerns us that we don’t have data on poverty. We have two organisations working on our behalf to try to collect more data on this.
“Poverty and inequality are very difficult to measure. We need to get a handle on that” Inequality is very difficult to measure also. We need to get a handle on that. You know, data is a big problem in Africa. We also need to tell people – statistics are so important because you cannot develop policy without data. And it amazes me that the development assistance community never thought of that. What are the results? What are you achieving from that? You need to strengthen statistical partners. To strengthen statistical offices in Africa is not as sexy as opening a hospital. But if there is a statistical office and if people have data, we will be able to open more hospitals more efficiently in the best places to meet the right needs. So we need to really think about how we are going to deal with that. You have talked about state governance, what about standards of corporate governance? We find that without holding private businesses and institutions accountable, it is very difficult to get a handle on governance in our countries. It always amazes me how, when we talk
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about corruption, we only speak about corrupt politicians. And it was interesting to see that until the year 2000, bribery was legal in Europe. It was under business expenses and tax deductible. And we say we are all partners in corruption, guys. We need to deal with it on both sides in order, really, to move forward. There is another way of doing business. Yes, business is about profits, that is the first objective of business. But it also should be about people and about the planet. If you want to have a sustainable, successful business, you cannot destroy your environment because you destroy your future. And you cannot alienate people because you are alienating your customers, so you have no future. So please get beyond the quarterly results and start to look at the future. How can this short-termism be changed? I believe, in the end, business is a force for good because business creates jobs, creates prospects. Government doesn’t create jobs. Business brings prosperity and better prospects for us. The vast majority of businesses are ethical and doing the right thing, but still some of us are misbehaving and that tarnishes the whole community. And it’s time for boards to take responsibility and really act as proper boards of oversight over their own companies. And that is a problem. What happened to Volkswagen amplifies that issue. How can even great companies – one of the best-loved companies in the world for innovation and productivity – how can it end up being mired in this kind of scandal? That’s an issue of governance. And we need to pay attention to that because it will come back and bite us on the butt! ● Interview by P.S.
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SPEAKER PROFILES H.E. Mr John Dramani Mahama President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama, the current President of Ghana, served as the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012, and took office as President in July 2012 following the death of his
predecessor, John Atta Mills. A communication expert, historian, and writer, Mahama was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from
1998 to 2001. He has previously published a book entitled “My First Coup d’Etat”, looking at the political problems in Africa since independence.
companies serving Africa and the Middle East. After selling Celtel for over $3 billion in 2005, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well
as creating the Mo Ibrahim Index, to evaluate nations’ performance. In 2007 he launched the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
Mo Ibrahim Founder of Mo Ibrahim Foundation Dr Mohamed Ibrahim is a SudaneseBritish mobile communications entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of Celtel International, one of the first mobile phone
H.E. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Dr Tedros is an Ethiopian academic and politician who has served in the government of Ethiopia as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2012. Previously the Minister of Health
from 2005 to 2012, he received praise during his tenure for a number of health reforms that improved access to health services. A globally recognised researcher on
malaria, Dr Tedros has co-authored numerous articles on the subject. He was the recipient of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award in 2011.
Dr Carlos Lopes Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Dr Carlos Lopes, a Bissau-Guinean development economist, author, educator and civil servant, was appointed as the 8th Executive Secretary of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa, in September 2012. He has more than 24 years of experience at the United Nations, previously serving as Executive
Director of the UN Institute for Training and Research in Geneva.
Donald Kaberuka Rwandan Economist and former President of the African Development Bank A Rwandan economist, Donald Kaberuka was the president of the African Development Bank from 2005 until September 2015. During his tenure he presided over a major
overhaul, refocusing the Bank on infrastructure and the private sector. Prior to this, he was the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda, from 1997 – 2005. He is
credited with helping to stabilize the Rwandan economy during this time, by overseeing the successful reconstruction of the country at the end of its civil war.
Arancha Gonzalez Laya Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) A ra n c ha G o n z a l e z L aya w a s appointed as executive director of the ITC, the joint agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade
Organisation, in August 2013. Prior to that she was the chief of staff to the WTO Director Pascal Lamy from 2005 - 2013, where she helped set up the WTO’s Aid for Trade initiative.
Ms. Gonzalez began her career in the private sector advising companies on trade, competition and state aid matters.
Jay Naidoo Chair, Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and former South African politician Chair of GAIN, Jay Naidoo also serves in an advisory capacity for a number of organisations, including the Global Health Advisory Panel of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From
1994 to 1999, he was the Minister responsible for South Africa’s Reconstruction and Development Programme and Communications Minister in Nelson Mandela’s
Cabinet. He was the founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), where he was at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid.
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SPEAKER PROFILES Professor Audrey Gadzekpo University of Ghana, Journalist and policy expert As head of department at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, Audrey Gadzekpo has some 20 years of experience in university teaching and research on media, gen-
der, development, politics and governance. She also has many years experience as a journalist, working as a reporter, editor and magazine publisher. She serves on various boards,
including the Ghana Integrity Initiative. She has been an international election observer in Mozambique (for the Commonwealth) and Benin (for Ecowas).
Franklin Cudjoe Founding President at IMANI Centre for Policy & Education In his capacity as CEO of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe is dedicated to the promotion of the institutions of a free society
throughout Africa. He is also the General Editor of AfricanLiberty.org and has previously consulted the UK Prime Minister’s office on how to make effective
use of British aid in Africa. He has won two John Templeton Foundation awards and was listed as one of 2012’s “Top 50 Africans” by The Africa Report.
Clare Short Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Ms Short was the UK Secretary of State for International Development (19972003). She entered the House of Commons in 1983 as the Member of Pa r l i a m e n t f o r B i r m i n g h a m
Ladywood. In 2003 she resigned from her role as Secretary of State for International Development over the Iraq war. She is now active in various organisations, focused on transpar-
ency in oil, gas and mining and African-led humanitarian action. In March 2011 she was elected Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
becoming an entrepreneur in the oil service industry and an investment banker for Renaissance Capital. He then started his own venture capital and private equity group in Mauritius, KAPPAFRIK, in partnership with a dozen successful African entrepreneurs.
He advised and was a party to multiple private equity transactions in Africa and has served for 5 years on the board of the French-Nigerian Chamber of Commerce. For 3 years he was an economic adviser to the French Ministry of Finance & Industry.
He currently works at the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group (IFC) in Johannesburg in charge of private sector investments in the Telecommunications, Media and
Technologies sector covering Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011 he received a distinction as New Leader for Tomorrow by the Crans Montana Forum.
itself as a media industry leader. Boateng had previously been the Africa Head of Turner Broadcasting System, based in the USA and later the UK. He was responsible for engineering the
transmission of various channels, including CNN, into Africa. He established the CNN African Journalists Awards to recognize excellence in journalism.
financial expert for Natixis, the corporate investment banking company. With an international presence in 42 countries (31 of which are in Africa), the Necotrans Group generates most
of its income in Africa. In September 2015, Necotrans won the bid for the terminal in the port of Kribi (Cameroon).
Vincent Guéneau Chairman, KAPPAFRIK Group Mr Vincent Guéneau is a trained engineer turned entrepreneur and venture capitalist with over 20 years experience in the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably West Africa and Nigeria. He started his career in the French Power Group Alstom, before
Mamadou Toure Founder and Chairman, Africa 2.0 Mamadou Toure is the founder and Chairman of Africa 2.0, an initiativedriven advocacy group that brings together emerging leaders representing African countries and the diaspora.
Edward Boateng Chairman of Global Media Alliance Chairman and founder of Global Media Alliance (GMA), Ghanaian Edward Boateng started the company in South Africa in 1998 and later moved it to Ghana. GMA has since established
Gregory Quérel Chairman, Necotrans Gregory Quérel took over as chairman of Necotrans, a French international logistics firm, in November 2013. A graduate of ESSCA and Ecole Centrale de Paris, Quérel started his career as
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Annual Governance Weekend, 20-22 November Accra, Ghana The annual Governance Weekend is the flagship event of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, held every year in November in a different African country. This three-day event convenes prominent African political and business leaders, representatives from civil society, multilateral and regional institutions as well as Africa’s major international partners to debate issues of critical importance to Africa. The 2015 Ibrahim Forum will take place on Saturday 22 November at the Accra International Convention Centre (AICC). This year’s topic will be “African Urban Dynamics”. Friday, 20 November
Leadership Ceremony honouring the 2014 Ibrahim Laureate, His Excellency President Hifikipunye Pohamba, former President of Namibia. (19:30-21:00 GMT) Saturday, 21 November
The Ibrahim Forum on: “African Urban Dynamics”. Participants will be able to interact with Mo Ibrahim and other speakers by submitting questions through the live webcast platform. We encourage participation from the audience. (09:00-17:30 GMT) FREE Live music concert featuring Angélique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy and DJ Mic Smith, hosted by Eddy Blay. (19:00 GMT) Sunday, 22 November
Live football match between the Ghana Dream Team and TP Mazembe (16:00 GMT) http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/annual-event/
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Kappafrik Group Profile Kappafrik Group is the leading African Investment Cooperative & Family Office dedicated to Entrepreneurs committed to Industrial Capacity Building in Africa. We are the common investment platform to a dozen first and second generation successful families of African Entrepreneurs who pooled their resources to invest in a wide portfolio of African Startups and growth SMEs centred around the Energy Sector and associated services with a dual objective of Capital Appreciation & Societal Impact, and with a strong sense of our mentoring responsibility towards the next generation.
Activities of the Group: Family Office | Asset management | PE & Venture Capital | Buy-Side Advisory | M&A Project management.
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Mo Ibrahim Foundation The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) was established in 2006 with a focus on the critical importance of leadership and governance in Africa. By providing tools to support progress in leadership and governance, the Foundation aims to promote meaningful change on the continent. The Foundation, which is a non-grant making organisation, focuses on defining, assessing and enhancing governance and leadership in Africa through four main initiatives: • The Ibrahim Index of African Governance provides an annual assessment of the quality of governance in African countries. • The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership recognises and celebrates excellence. • The Ibrahim Forum is an annual high-level discussion forum tackling issues of critical importance to Africa. • Ibrahim Fellowships form a selective programme designed to mentor future African leaders and Ibrahim Scholarships support and develop the talent of outstanding young Africans in selected disciplines.
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The Africa Report Understand Africa’s tomorrow‌today In 10 years, The Africa Report has established itself as the international publication of reference dedicated to African affairs. Published by Groupe Jeune Afrique (founded in 1960), it is the guide used by decision makers to anticipate economic and political changes in Africa and relied upon for the expertise of an independent editorial team in its survey, sector reports and country focus published in each issue.
The Africa Report is the only media to have been awarded Media of the Year three times. Its recognized high-quality coverage of the African business environment is combined with the strongest pan African and international circulation with 60,000 copies and 450,000 regular readers. The Africa Report also offers a full cross media reach to several millions users and followers thanks to a fully multi-media platform with print and digital editions, newsletters, mobile and tablet applications as well as a unique and engaging social media exposure.
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