A revolution hastened: Africa looks within amidst global trade wars

If there’s one thing African leaders are adept at, one thing they have mastered over the decades of post-colonial independence and development planning, it is accurately, fastidiously and beautifully describing the challenges facing their individual countries and the continent at large.

Each meeting of the numerous multilaterals and supranationals formed on the continent has descended into a talk-shop where problems facing the continent’s developments are detailed, but the resulting resolutions, protocols and decisions are rarely moved forward.