Economic growth is enormously difficult to measure, never mind to predict, but signs point to economic growth rates of 4.2% to 4.8% across Africa in the next year. (As a sign of how inexact all of this is, the stories linked above vary in their assessments of the last year’s economy in Africa, with one claiming that the continent suffered negative growth rates of -1.7% while the other asserts modest growth of 2%.) Now obviously some countries will fare better than others, and some parts of Africa may see no growth at all or even contraction. But really that is always the case with any economic statistics. On the aggregate, however, this must be seen as good news.
