Why the World should brace for Africa's new generation of dealmakers

 

For much of my public life, I have sat in rooms where the fate of nations was negotiated line by line. Those moments are rarely dramatic from the outside. They unfold in dense briefing papers, in long evenings parsing clauses, in decisions that determine whether a country retains control over its future or quietly yields it away. In today’s fractured geopolitical landscape, such moments have multiplied. Yet the institutions designed to support sovereign decision-making have not kept pace.