Based on visionary leadership, sound macro economic policies and people centred politics, like beauty from ashes, Africa, the last holdout of mass poverty is developing homegrown solutions to the plethora of problems beleaguering the continent, creating a sense of Afro-optimism across the globe
With China kicking away the ladder after climbing to the top, visionary leadership and a shift from factor endowment mentality to value added remains the silver bullet and desideratum to reset the trajectory of Africa on a timely transforming path to leapfrog the Asian giant.