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The Economist
The Economist
6 Jan 2025


NextImg:African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs
Special report | The need for “development bargains”

African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs

Otherwise the future looks zero-sum

In 2017 Claudio Silva, who a few years earlier returned to Angola after growing up in America, was optimistic that the country of his birth was turning a corner. That year João Lourenço became president, replacing José Eduardo dos Santos, the corrupt autocrat who ran sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest oil producer for 38 years. The new president pledged to reform the economy and to cut graft.