News Summary

• Africa cannot control global geopolitics, let alone prevent external shocks.
• But it can manage its exposure, especially by building an integrated continental market.
• It can also invest in higher-value-added production, and push for reform of the global credit-rating agencies.
• Africa faces a choice: It can allow itself to be carried along by events into an uncertain future, or it can use the ongoing shifts in the international order as an opening to position itself as a more influential global player.
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