Everywhere in Africa, the struggle is real. When I was in secondary school decades ago, we used to learn about the United Nations’ goal to “end poverty” before the end of the 1990s.
Now the targets have moved to ending only “extreme poverty” by 2030. Before Covid-19 came along and upended our best plans, over 445 million Africans – equivalent to 34 percent of the continent’s population – lived below the poverty line. That figure was almost nine times the average for the rest of the world.
