Africa can rise from the ashes of the Covid-19 pandemic
ADAM MOLAI WHILE Covid-19 has dealt a blow to the world economy, the portents for Africa are, according to those seemingly in the know, much more ominous. The African Development Bank estimates that Africa has lost a “decade of economic growth” due to the Coronavirus pandemic and predicts Africa’s recovery will be long and difficult while the UN Development Programme’s “The socio-economic impact assessment of Covid-19 in South Africa” study projects that South Africa – the continent’s second-biggest and most industrialised economy – will take five years to recover. From virtually all quarters it is accepted that Africa is back…