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Many books speak of Africa; far fewer capture its living realities the way Joe Studwell\u2019s \u201cHow Africa Works\u201d does. Studwell set out to answer the question, Can Africa, like Asia, defeat poverty, become prosperous, and play a stronger role in the world? His starting point is that you cannot solve a problem you do not understand, which leads him to two narrower questions: Why is Africa a relatively poor continent, and what policies can accelerate its growth?<\/p>\n

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His answer to the first question is a masterpiece of explanation. Studwell traces the continent\u2019s poverty to three historical factors, none of them the corruption-and-conflict staples of popular commentary, which he treats instead as symptoms. The first is demographic. Africa was, for all of recorded history, the world\u2019s most underpopulated habitable landmass, its numbers suppressed by a uniquely vicious disease burden\u2014malaria carried by mosquitoes that evolved a preference for human blood, sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly that made raising livestock impossible across a third of the continent\u2014along with crop-raiding elephants and the slave trades. Without dense populations there were no concentrated markets, no labor surplus, and per-capita infrastructure costs that made development arithmetic close to impossible. The second factor, \u201clow budget\u201d colonialism, was itself a response to the first: European powers, unable to make sparse territories pay, ruled through co-opted chiefs, invested only in extractive enclaves, and left political development frozen until the 1950s. The third was what these two produced\u2014societies dispersed, fragmented, and almost wholly unschooled.<\/p>\n

The statistics Studwell presents on literacy are staggering. In 1959, just 136 children graduated from secondary school in Belgian Congo, the second-largest country on the continent; across Portuguese Angola and Mozambique, a total of 86 Africans attended secondary-level technical schools that year. African children barely went to school\u2014a fact that, for me, summons my own parents\u2019 stories of starting their first school classes well into adolescence, and only for a few years. Literacy across the continent began to rise in earnest only in the 1990s. While much of the world industrialized during the 20th century, Africa was still contending with constraints that societies elsewhere never had to face.<\/p>\n

Wealth of Insights<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is history that most African classrooms do not teach\u2014an indictment of African education in itself, and one that leaves an African reader like me wondering whether our classrooms are doing enough to equip a new generation of problem solvers for Africa\u2019s particular problems. The book\u2019s achievement is to thread Africa\u2019s history into one coherent account of why a resource-rich continent failed to emerge as an economic and political force when others did, and why the usual culprits explain so little\u2014a diagnosis that now needs to travel both into classrooms and into policy offices. Studwell offers insight into questions analysts and governments still grapple with: why literacy remains low in most African countries (the burden, among others, of learning in languages not spoken at home); why short-termism in national economic assets persists; and what the lived legacies of colonialism, from patrimonialism to the resource curse, still are.<\/p>\n

The book provides rich case studies from Studwell\u2019s interviews across the continent, bringing unique insights rarely found in commentary about Africa. His book captures both micro and macro peculiarities of Africa\u2019s problems in an unmatched way. On the \u201cpatriarchal politics of agriculture,\u201d he shows how grandiose government schemes failed because their architects did not understand the rural sectors they meant to transform. My knowledge of Kenya\u2019s fits a continent-wide pattern. He traces the rise of commercial farming in once-quiet corners of rural Tanzania and tells the story of a banker and farmer named Henry and the challenges of managing farm labor from a distance\u2014an account that invoked memories of my own lived experiences.<\/p>\n

Studwell weaves in fresh insight on how mineral wealth fuels authoritarian rule, rent-seeking, and the risk of civil conflict. He also shows how it breeds \u201cenclavity,\u201d in which Western-led extraction delivers little local stimulus and crowds out domestic enterprise, while governments fail to bank the windfall in sovereign wealth or stabilization funds. Colonialism compounded the damage by restitching identities into national politics: Kenyatta\u2019s refusal to resettle former Mau Mau fighters and whose legacy of land hunger still erupts in violence and echoes in the hustler narrative of William Ruto\u2019s rise to Kenya\u2019s presidency; the Belgian sharpening of Tutsi and Hutu ethnic differences that culminated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide; and the North African bifurcation of farmland into subsidized export estates and a neglected subsistence sector, which he ties to the rise of radical Islam and the Arab Spring. The cumulative portrait that emerges conveys the book\u2019s underlying argument in miniature: Africa\u2019s natural endowments were offset, again and again, by ethnic division, extractive elites, a population deficit, a heavy disease burden, and low literacy.<\/p>\n

Studwell\u2019s diagnosis of the past leads to a pivot point in his argument\u2014to his recommendations for the continent\u2019s future: Africa now has the demographics for new possibilities and is \u201cfinally in the developmental game.\u201d Africa\u2019s growing population now offers the prospect of agglomeration economies\u2014more people living in towns helps reduce the cost of providing goods and services. And there is evidence that Africans are already benefiting. The World Bank\u2019s 2026 country classification by income shows an increased number of sub-Saharan Africa economies climbing into the middle-income tier, vacating the low-income tier in the past decade.<\/p>\n

This turning point moves the book to Studwell\u2019s second inquiry\u2014what policies can accelerate growth\u2014and here Studwell is brisk, because he believes the answer is already known. He restates the prescriptions of his earlier book \u201cHow Asia Works\u201d: maximize output from smallholder agriculture, channel investment into export manufacturing, and discipline the financial system to serve both. He argues there is \u201cno African exceptionalism,\u201d because effective development outcomes vary far less than context does. The real difference, he writes, lies in the difficulty of getting policies implemented in much more challenging settings. Africa\u2019s particular obstacles, ethnic fragmentation chief among them, make implementation difficult but not impossible, and the cases that have worked were carried out by a cross-ethnic \u201cdevelopmental coalition.\u201d He offers four\u2014Botswana, Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda\u2014with rare access and a vivid candor about how partial and fragile each success has been.<\/p>\n

This is a strong argument. But for scholars like me who have spent the past decade studying digital transformation, the book stumbles when it fails to account for one of the greatest forces of our time\u2014technology, and now artificial intelligence (AI). What I undertake next is not a dispute with Studwell but an extension of what he lays out as \u201cthe challenge for the rest.\u201d Africa\u2019s development is being written by a growing digital economy, right alongside agriculture and manufacturing\u2014a new ingredient that did not exist when the recipe Studwell draws on was perfected, and one whose case is stronger than the book allows. Generative AI, as a general-purpose technology, will affect economic growth more quickly than other previous innovations, giving it potential to override old constraints and old ways of escaping them.<\/p>\n

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Enter Digital Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The striking thing about \u201cHow Africa Works\u201d is that the digital economy does appear in the book, dispersed broadly but never as an anchor\u2014the way water appears to a fish, everywhere and therefore unexamined. The single largest foreign investment Studwell records in postwar Ethiopia is the Safaricom-led consortium that paid $850 million for the country\u2019s first foreign telecom license\u2014Safaricom being the home of M-Pesa, the continent\u2019s largest mobile-money network. His tour of Lagos credits a fast broadband network in the Yaba district with seeding the start-up culture of a city that now generates a disproportionate share of Nigerian output, under a regional government that built the infrastructure the federal state never did. His final chapter notes that venture capital flows into Africa, led by financial technology, citing a rise from $200 million in 2015 to between $2 and $7 billion dollars a year after 2020. Each of these examples, and others throughout the book, appear as details, never as a theme. Yet together they tell a story the book should have addressed: Across agriculture, manufacturing, and finance, digital technology is fast becoming the means of delivery now captured in a wave of digital frameworks.<\/p>\n

The African Union\u2019s sets out to harness digital technology to drive inclusive growth, create jobs, and close the digital divide. Similarly, its offers a road map to harness AI for socioeconomic transformation. At the national level, too, governments have developed digital transformation strategies and AI strategies that position technology at the heart of their socioeconomic development agendas.<\/p>\n

All four of Studwell\u2019s exemplars of development success have moved to place the digital economy at the center of national strategy. Mauritius, which he credits as Africa\u2019s first genuine manufacturing success, published a national AI strategy in 2018 that calls the technology \u201ca new pillar for the development of our nation\u201d and invokes his own logic of sequential leaps, proposing to win \u201cthe first mover advantage in AI development in our region, the same way we created the first mover advantage in textile in the 1980\u2019s and offshore\/global business development in the 1990\u2019s.\u201d Rwanda, his \u201cSingapore in Central Africa,\u201d built a National AI Policy \u201cto leverage AI to power economic growth.\u201d Even Botswana, which has no AI strategy, runs a digital transformation program, SmartBots, to digitize public services\u2014among them BAITS, an e-service for livestock farmers.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia is a most instructive case. Through its National Artificial Intelligence Policy and Digital Ethiopia strategy, the country seeks to unlock value across four \u201cdigitally enabled pathways,\u201d among them agriculture, manufacturing value chains, and information technology-enabled services. It reconstructs the development agenda on digital rails\u2014digital agriculture platforms, e-logistics for export, a national digital ID (Fayda), and interoperable payments. The strategy is candid about why. \u201cTraditional development windows may be closing,\u201d its introduction warns, \u201cbut new, technology-driven pathways are opening.\u201d Its authors contend that the \u201clabour-substitution effect of automation may be closing the window for developing economies to leverage manufacturing for job creation,\u201d and government should \u201cleapfrog where possible,\u201d while noting, in a line Studwell could have written, that the journey \u201cis not about copying what others have done.\u201d The point is not that these governments have succeeded but that they have reshaped their visions to account for new possibilities in reshaping their futures.<\/p>\n

And the evidence is building that Africa can solve problems particular to its own conditions. Mobile money arose not from donor design but because Kenyans needed to move value without bank branches\u2014a homegrown model now exported to the world, and exactly the necessity-driven invention Studwell\u2019s own theory predicts. The continent\u2019s population offers a second opening: a median age of 19, the most schooled generation in the continent\u2019s history, and, by the polling Studwell cites, far more confident about the future than its European or Japanese contemporaries. This is the cohort visible in the technology hubs from Lagos to Kigali and at gatherings such as the Deep Learning Indaba, and audible in the GenZ protests that have lately unsettled governments from Nairobi outward. Couple that population with artificial intelligence as a general-purpose technology, and a third developmental pathway comes into view alongside agriculture and manufacturing\u2014digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Digital and Its Limits<\/strong><\/p>\n

The digital pathway has real limits, and they run in the same direction as Studwell\u2019s own caution. First, a youth bulge can curdle into a youth crisis; where politics breaks down, he notes, \u201cmore people means more problems.\u201d Second, AI needs digital rails of its own\u2014data, connectivity, and a skilled workforce\u2014and the constraints that framed Africa still bear on it, as poverty, a wide , and fragmented data ecosystems make AI hard to scale. Third, technology can entrench inequality and a surveillance state as readily as it can extend a clinic\u2019s reach; Studwell\u2019s own chapter on Rwanda, with its citizen-monitoring software and contested poverty statistics, is a study in how capable, technologically equipped governance can also be coercive. Fourth, mobile money scaled in Kenya because a regulator allowed it to be, but it cannot extend across borders without the data frameworks to carry it\u2014a reminder that colonial boundaries still speak in the AI age. Fifth, innovation grows and scales only when it is funded\u2014an imperative for Africa to close its innovation funding gap. And last, a strategy document is a statement of intent, not a record of delivery; African governments have produced policy and strategy in abundance, and it remains to be seen how far these documents translate into tangible benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello, Africa\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studwell\u2019s final chapter, \u201cHello, Africa,\u201d echoes a popular greeting that should be read as a summons, and which I echo with \u201chellooo, Africa.\u201d In most of Africa, calling \u201chellooo\u201d to something is rarely a greeting; it is an emphasis, a way of calling a thing out. Leadership in particular deserves that \u201chellooo\u201d because no matter which route countries take, all must converge here: leadership that makes Africa work. Studwell puts it plainly, borrowing Chinua Achebe\u2019s verdict that the trouble with Nigeria was \u201csimply and squarely a failure of leadership,\u201d and concluding that \u201cAfrica is perfectly able to produce exceptional leaders. It just needs more of them.\u201d This is leadership that develops what Studwell calls \u201cdevelopmental coalitions\u201d\u2014the cross-ethnic policy direction that subordinates ethnic interests to national development; ends the short-term, extractive habits that he traces from the settler estates handed to post-independence elites, to the kleptocracies, to the roughly $50 billion the African Union estimates leaves the continent illicitly each year; and governs instead for the nation. It is leadership that grasps that a country\u2019s youngest citizens are its principal asset, that its data is a sovereign resource, and that a general-purpose technology has changed who can create economic value. Leadership of this caliber must now be produced in Africa, and in abundance.<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>How Africa Works\u201d makes a genuine contribution to the study of African development, and its account of why the continent is poor gives scholars, governments, and development partners a platform on which to evolve their practice. But a diagnosis of how Africa works is not yet an account of how it will transform. That story must be told with the same honesty and skill Studwell brings to the past, now pointed forward, toward development outcomes. Africa\u2019s problems are, in important respects, particular, and particular problems invite solutions built to fit them. The continent has already shown, with mobile money, that it can produce such solutions. Agriculture, manufacturing, and finance remain critical development pathways, but the new scripts must be written with the right diagnostics, and those now include digital technologies.<\/p>\n

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