How far will the newly emerging element in northen Africa, the “Arab Spring” affect the picture? Will the ‘great leap forward’ acclaimed by Donald Kaberuka, Chairman of the African Development Bank, at the G20 meeting in Paris on 21 October 2011, mean, as he claims, that Africa has “left behind the stagnation of the past”?
The optimism is grounded in a solid record of achievement. And yet, there is so much in Africa, that could be done better, smarter, and more efficiently. Take the regional integration agenda, for example.