Africa's Moment

Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and monotheist. If poverty and violence are still rampant, economic growth has taken off again and a middle class is developing. Africa will hold a central place in the big issues facing the world today. If it once made a #x18;false start#x19;, here it is back again #x13; in the fast lane. The West has missed the turnaround of a continent that will no longer wait for us. How can we best understand it? Demography, economics, politics, diplomacy, cultures and religions #x13; this book presents the different facets of this new Africa, which will soon have a billion people, at the mid point of the most rapid population boom that humanity has ever known. Without ignoring the risks of its metamorphosis, it brings to light the forces and hopes that Africa harbors.

Jean-Michel Severino is a former vice-president of the World Bank and CEO of the Agence Française de Développement. He now runs I&P Management, a private equity impact investment fund dedicated to African small and medium size enterprises.

Olivier Ray works at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department for Policy Analysis.

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The Peopling of a Continent	p. 5
Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?	p. 7
Malthus on CNN	p. 17
Africa on the Move	p. 27
A Black Peril?	p. 29
Crowded Roads	p. 41
Africa against Growth?	p. 53
The Undiscoverable Curse	p. 55
The Great Wheel of Growth	p. 64
When Africa Awakes	p. 77
The Great Shake-Out	p. 79
Emerging Africans	p. 89
Between God and Mammon	p. 97
Urban Compositions	p. 99
Crescent and Cross	p. 107
Switched-on Africa	p. 122
The End of Ethnicity	p. 132
African Democracy	p. 140
Three Lines of March	p. 149
The Dangers of Rent	p. 151
The Vanguard of Development	p. 162
Fragile Africa: One Crisis after Another	p. 176
Invigorating the World	p. 191
The Limits to Growth	p. 193
Light against Darkness	p. 200
The Hunger for Land	p. 213
The Human Struggle	p. 222
The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations	p. 229
Africa Courted	p. 231
Africa's New Exploiters?	p. 240
Acknowledging Africa	p. 251
Conclusion: Can Africa Reject Development?	p. 262
Maps	p. 267
Notes	p. 274
Index	p. 301
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