Hippolyte Fofack, a former chief economist at the African Export-Import Bank, is Parker Fellow at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network at Columbia University, a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for African Studies, a distinguished fellow at the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, and a fellow at the African Academy of Sciences.
More than 50 years after decolonization, the West still regards Africa as a supporting player in the global economy: a source of raw materials and...
