‘Africa’s biggest challenge is a mindset challenge’: UN Special Adviser

UN Photo/Manuel Elías Cristina Duarte, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, brief reporters on the 2024 Africa Dialogue Series (6-30 May).

This article is published in association with United Nations. Africa does not have a million problems, it only has one – a mindset problem, says UN Special Adviser on Africa Cristina Duarte. The 2025 Academic Conference on Africa at UN Headquarters earlier this month, brought together leading African scholars, ministers, and activists to examine why many on the […]

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