The COVID-19 pandemic has set back important progress on education, gender equality, and economic development across Africa, but it has also revealed a continent that is more integrated and acting with greater solidarity than before. Aloysius Uche Ordu, director of the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings, joins David Dollar in this episode to discuss the region’s top priorities for the year ahead and the findings of a new report, Foresight Africa 2021.
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Aloysius Uche Ordu and
Aloysius Uche Ordu
Director
- Africa Growth Initiative,
Senior Fellow
- Global Economy and Development
@AloysiusOrdu
David Dollar
David Dollar
Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center
February 1, 2021