Thread by @cchukudebelu

Will Africa pass through severe difficulties like climate change, political turbulence etc over the next 1 - 2 decades? Yes.

But will Africa's urban middle class have a much larger purchasing power then? Absolutely.

Nigeria has the world's largest number of poor people;

But this also applies to Nigeria.

One thing about contemporary Africa is that many contradictory things can be true at the same time. qz.com/africa/1947769…

I've lived in Nigeria for most of my life - and one thing I can tell you about this place is that problems are being solved, not by foreign aid funded governments, but by private individuals - and the missing piece is how to scale these solutions.

Most of Africa might never have access to grid electricity - but we will be the most eager adopters of unconventional electricity, when the technology matures - and African Governments and Foreign Aid agencies will have nothing to do with this process.

Now people who solve problems by themselves develop alternative social contracts. So we can safely say that the post-colonial African state in its present state is dead, all that is left is to bury it.

But we are not quite sure about what will replace it.