At the beginning of 2020, some believed that the growth which had fueled the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative since 2011 was stalling and that the continent was no longer the shining investment beacon it had been at the beginning of the decade. In fact, as far back as 2017, commentators were suggesting that Africa was “no longer rising” or that the narrative had been based on “faulty logic” in the first place.

According to the World Bank, the pandemic and its associated lockdowns saw the continent experience its first recession in 25 years. Additionally, as NKC’s Risk-Reward Index points out, there are already signs that Africa will be disproportionately hit as risk-averse investors withdraw from frontier markets.

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