非洲正在崛起?

Is Africa Rising?

这是尼日利亚中央银行前副行长莫哈鲁(Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu,2010—2014年11月任职)博士2014年7月23日在英国伦敦政治与经济学院的公开演讲(刊登时,本文有删节)。他在其2013年著作《新兴的非洲:全球经济'最后边疆'如何繁荣与发挥重要作用》中,挑战有关非洲追求增长的'常识',揭示非洲对当今非洲人的意义,从哲学、经济和战略方面提出对非洲经济转型的看法,认为非洲要在21世纪取得进步,首先必需重塑非洲的世界观。

To many,Africa is the new frontier.As the West lies battered by financial crises,Africa is seen as offering limitless opportunities for wealth creation in the march of globalisation.This paper ponders over the questions of what Africa means to today’s Africans and whether Africa is truly on the rise,challenges conventional wisdoms about Africa’s quest for growth.Drawing on philosophy,economics and strategic studies,this paper proposes a new vision of transformation for African countries and that Africa’s progress in the twenty-first century will require nothing short of the reinvention of the African mindset.