Africa

Globalization as we know it has failed. Africa has an alternative

Customers wait to be served inside a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom; in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016.

Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Calestous Juma
Director, Science Technology and Globalization, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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