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Wealth Is The African Identity
There is a story the world has been telling about Africa for a very long time. WealthAfrica exists because that story is wrong. Not incomplete. Not unbalanced. Wrong.
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Substantial long-form journalism for serious readers. These are the pieces that take time to read — and to write. Plan accordingly.
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A Test of Africa's Discipline
The selection of the next UN Secretary-General is a test not of one man, but of whether Africa can resist the familiar pull of fragmentation and act with the unity its ambitions require.
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The Gold Paradox: Why the IMF's $360 Billion Reserve Is Both Africa's Best Hope and a Political Impossibility
The Africa Expert Panel's proposal to sell IMF gold for debt relief is economically sound, historically precedented, and almost certainly dead on arrival. The gap between those two realities tells us everything.