– The writer is the outgoing Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg and on March 1,2023, will become Rector of the United Nations University
continent, we find ourselves somewhat in an economic depression. Despondently, this represents a significant setback for the continent that showed an impressive growth trajectory just a few years ago. As Frankema and van Waijenburg indicated in a 2017 journal article, the African growth story in the last two
