Africa does not suffer from a shortage of ambition. Across the continent, governments have set bold targets for industrialisation, infrastructure, education, healthcare, food security, climate resilience, digital transformation and job creation. Yet between these ambitions and their achievement sits one persistent question: how will we finance them?
The scale of the challenge is significant. Africa faces an annual Sustainable Development Goals financing gap estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The continent also requires massive investment in infrastructure, while climate adaptation alone will demand tens of billions of dollars annually in the years ahead. At the same time, millions of young Africans enter the labour market every year, requiring economies that can create jobs, enterprises and opportunities at unprecedented scale.
These figures can appear daunting. But they tell only half the story.
Africa also holds enormous pools of capital, rapidly expanding markets, valuable natural resources and some of the
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