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If you’re a regular reader of Africa Watch, it’s possibly because you were tired of reading about “Africa” as if it were a monolithic country of 1.3 billion people with all the same traits, habits and perspectives. Or better yet, that might have been your own impression of the globe’s second-largest continent, and you decided you wanted to change that.
In any event, if you want to learn more about Africa as it exists—a dynamic, varied and fast-growing continent with the globe’s youngest population, as well as idiosyncrasies, paradoxes, risks and opportunities just like everywhere else—you have come to the right place.