Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent promise of free grain to six African countries and headlines highlighting the continent’s reliance on grain imports from war-torn Ukraine demonstrate Africa’s urgent need to strengthen agricultural capacity and food security. Persistent food insecurity and agricultural underdevelopment undermine health, stability, and economic progress across many African countries. According to Oxfam, 20% of Africans are undernourished, and nearly half of the population lacks access to clean drinking water. At the same time, Africa spends more than $35 billion annually importing staple cereals, oils, and other basic foods to meet demand. With climate change exacerbating droughts, floods,…
Adio-Adet Dinika
Adio-Adet Dinika
Adio-Adet Dinika is a writer, researcher and affiliated PhD Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science (BIGSSS). His areas of interest are Digitalisation and the Future of Work. He has published opinion pieces on Digitalisation and socio-economic development in several print and online publications, and his first unpublished novel, They like us dead, was long listed for the 2021 James Currey Prize for African Literature. He is currently based in Bremen, Germany.
A friend once showed me an image: Africa at night, shrouded in darkness, with sparse lights dotting the edges. It was a stark and uncomfortable image –the “Dark Continent”– yet it conceals the truth of Africa’s immense potential. While Africa is endowed with rich natural resources and vibrant human capital, it still grapples with substantial power challenges. This is an unfortunate testament to our leaders and, by extension, ourselves. But change is on the horizon. Current narratives within the energy sector suggest a critical point in Africa’s energy trajectory – a paradigm shift from reliance on traditional fossil fuels to…
