The Seville Conference 2025
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As the Seville Conference on Financing for Development starts today, I can’t stop thinking about one truth: Africa must stop adapting itself to finance and start shaping finance to serve its own future.
It is not enough to ask “how do we bring in more money?” We must ask: who decides where it flows? Into what sectors? Under what terms? With what vision?
The money must meet the mission!!!!!
The continent does not need just more aid or more loans. It needs better-aligned, strategic, long-term investment that respects its agency and accelerates its ambitions.
This is the kind of shift I hope Seville 2025 will ignite. Because when Africa leads its own development story, finance will follow, not the other way around.
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I agree. It is interesting how our survival is solely dependent on aid. There tends to be limited discussion on how sustainability can be maintained and retained. With 5 years away from the SGDs, the panic is evident. Africa needs to rethink its leadership styles, involvement of stakeholders and learn through this phase to remain relevant to development agenda.
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Yes, the panic is obvious for the SDGs actualisation! I totally agree with you on rethinking leadership style and likewise the quality of leadership.
