As African leaders meet in Addis Ababa to chart Vision 2063, a blueprint for the next 50 years, optimism about the possibilities seems limitless. After an unprecedented decade of booming growth rates, improving infrastructure, and some strides in social indicators, Africa seems poised to finally take off.

As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary, UNDP's administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark argues that tackling inequalities on the continent is central to lifting human development.

Reformists took two years to persuade governments to give up some sovereignty and join a union that would promote accountability and economic development.

By rejecting continental unity Africa is depriving itself of wealth and autonomy, says Nkrumah's daughter.

Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades.  

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world's largest mobile-phone conference, MTN's chief executive Sifiso Dabengwa spoke to The Africa Report about expansion, data and why he might decide to raise prices.