Broken By Design
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[Leadership] Every few years, the world rediscovers Africa. Sometimes it is because of a famine; at other times, it is because of a coup, a debt crisis, an epidemic, or a migration emergency. The accompanying narrative is almost always the same: Africa is broken.
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