Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging Issues in sub-Saharan Africa

There are ten critical challenges ahead for sub-Saharan Africa. Each greatly affects the future of the forty-eight nation-states. Responses to each of the challenges by Africa, the individual countries within Africa, and by outside powers—notably the United States, the European Union, and China—will determine whether or not sub-Saharan Africans in this and later decades remain impoverished, conflicted, under-educated, and unhealthy.  How Africans cope with the ten critical challenges, and how China and the West seek to help Africans help themselves will determine the positive or negative life experiences of millions of Africans, including generations as yet unborn. Click here to read full brief.