Africa in a shifting world order — can digital technology achieve what aid never could?

As the great powers renegotiate their alliances and priorities, Africa is reshaping its future. From the promise of digital economies and homegrown innovation to the complex legacies of foreign aid, debt and dependency — this is a conversation about power, possibility, and the remaking of a continent on its own terms.What needs to change in policy, in investment, in the stories we tell for Africa's ambitions to be fully realised?Africa and the World: Reclaiming Agency in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape was presented at Havard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) and their Africa Development ConferenceSpeakersDr Jendayi FrazerFormer US Assistant Secretary of State for African AffairsH.E Ameenah Gurib FakeemFormer President of MauritiusH.E. Mark-Alexandre DoumbaMinister of Digital Economy & Innovation of GabonMayowa Kuyoro (host)Partner at McKinsey & Co