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Why Africa should look to Africa in its quest for resilience

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By Nicholas Norbrook

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Posted on August 7, 2023 08:54

A UN-chartered ship taking grain from Ukraine to Ethiopia, August 2022. (AFP/Oleksandr Gimanov)
A UN-chartered ship taking grain from Ukraine to Ethiopia, August 2022. (AFP/Oleksandr Gimanov)

Covid-19, inflation, and the impact of the war in Ukraine have been a triple shock to jilt African policymakers into new ways of thinking.

Africa has taken a bruising over the past three years. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the inadequacies of healthcare systems and vaccine production across the continent, making political elites rethink their priorities.

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