Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei

Oct 22, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Ray Bush |Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei |Peter Karibe Mendy

A new calendar year ushers in the usual array of tropes on Africa. They include why the continent is failing, what it should be doing better and why it has so much resilience in dealing with its own frailty. Overwhelmingly, Western institutions (NGOs, credit rating agencies) repeat tired mantras of the international financial institutions, ignoring the insights of African scholar-activists and the historical backdrop to the continent’s contemporary crises.