Against the backdrop of recent visits by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and several German ministers to Africa, CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa researchers Detlef Müller-Mahn and Eric Kioko (Project C03 Green Futures) reflect on how Africans envisions their own Futures, in their blog post in Megatrends Africa.
The full blog post can be found here.
Envisioning African Futures: Blog Post by Detlef Müller-Mahn and Eric Kioko
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