A November 2025 RMB white paper titled Continent at a Crossroads has warned that Africa is entering a decisive decade. The choices governments, firms, and regional blocs make will determine whether the continent turns its advantages into broad prosperity or falls back into familiar traps. The study is grounded in 47 leadership interviews and a survey of more than 2,300 respondents. It frames Africa’s outlook through nine linked forces, from governance and integration to demographics, technology, and geopolitics. The paper’s most consistent finding is that governance is the single biggest constraint on Africa’s economic transformation. Interviewees repeatedly point to weak…
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