Adesina Calls For Shift in Africa’s Economic Structure From Raw Material Exports to Agro-industrialization - AgroNigeria

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By Buregyeya Apollo In just 9 hours, I flew from Entebbe to Addis Ababa to Ouagadougou. No London layover. No Paris visa hustle. No colonial checkpoint to move between two African countries. That’s progress. President Kaguta Museveni and his fellow African leaders deserve their flowers for decolonising the air routes of Africa. It’s only 2% of the work, but at least now we can visit our neighbours without first consulting the Queen’s grandchildr…

Adesina Calls For Shift in Africa’s Economic Structure From Raw Material Exports to Agro-industrialization - AgroNigeria

The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, has called for a radical shift in Africa’s economic structure from raw material exports to agro-industrialization as the key to unlocking prosperity on the continent. Speaking at the 14th Convocation Lecture of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Dr. Adesina warned that Africa’s continued reliance on the export of unprocessed agricultural commodities is a d…