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Jan 13, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Editor's note: This essay opens Chapter 5 of Foresight Africa 2025-2030, which examines how emerging technologies can address some of the continent’s most pressing challenges, including economic, environmental, social, and governance issues, and be a game changer for Africa’s development.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Editor's note: This essay opens Chapter 4 of Foresight Africa 2025-2030, which dives into the state of governance across Africa, with particular focus on how African governments are meeting the priorities and needs of African citizens.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé |Acha Leke |Mayowa Kuyoro |Omid Kassiri
Editor's note: This essay opens Chapter 1 of Foresight Africa 2025-2030, which examines the urgent need for African nations to harness their internal strengths and reduce reliance on external forces to drive sustainable growth from within. Africa is increasingly recognized as the next frontier for global economic growth.1 Its potential is vast, characterized by diverse natural resources, a burgeoning youth population, and untapped innovation.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Despite the prevailing narrative that Africa is falling behind in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the continent is actually home to half of the world’s mobile money accounts, making it a pioneer in integrating 4IR technology into the financial services industry, according to 4C Group and GSMA.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Africa is fast becoming a hub for disruptive innovation in healthcare, using emerging technologies to advance discoveries and revolutionize healthcare delivery. Attracting $550 million in investments between 2020 and 2023, “health tech” ecosystems are now emerging across the continent. In 2023, a $21 million investment marked the largest investment ever in a woman-led African health tech company, part of the 2,000% increase in funding for women-led startups between 2022 and 2023.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Danielle Resnick |Landry Signé
Before the end of 2024, 22 African countries will have held some form of electoral contest, either for president, national legislators, or local leaders. As of November, this record year for elections across countries with vastly different levels of political pluralism has resulted in some outcomes that were already foregone conclusions, such as Kais Saied’s landslide victory in Tunisia.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Home to the world’s first ever 3D-printed school, Africa is a hotspot for digital transformation in the construction industry. For example, 14Trees, an Africa-founded joint venture between Holcim and British International Investment, is revolutionizing the construction industry through 3D printing technology. The company printed the walls to build new schools in Malawi and Madagascar in 18 hours and continues to scale into more construction markets, including building a 52-house complex in Kenya.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé
Despite the narrative that Africa’s challenges will inevitably lead it to fall behind in the 4IR, current and emerging leaders and innovators are paving the path for Africa to become a global powerhouse.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Landry Signé |Crystal Rugege
Rwanda has made impressive progress in driving inclusive digitalization across its economy. By harnessing data-driven insights, the country has empowered evidence-based policymaking, fostered innovation, and catalyzed digital transformation of Rwandan society.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Francis Mangeni |Andrew Mold |Landry Signé
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to create one market across the 55 countries of the African Union, promising free movement of goods, services, investment, people, and cooperation. In this episode, host Landry Signé speaks with Francis Mangeni and Andrew Mold, both experts on African trade and regional integration, about the status of African integration under AfCFTA and how to catalyze its continued implementation.
