Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills authors of Africa's Third Liberation - The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs ,writing in the NYTimes:
Continuing:To ensure a new future with both jobs and development, African governments will have to embark on a path down which few have so far ventured. They will need, at the outset, to develop a “growth ideology.” Many governments will need to drop their animus to business, which often had its origins in racial exclusion or perceptions of rivalry. This demands that governments recognize that the state has a key role in helping private enterprise by working to establish the infrastructure necessary for economic development, especially on a continent dealing with the binding constraints of inadequate transport and electricity production.
Africa’s third liberation will, for the first time, offer its citizens across the continent the opportunity to set their own agendas. It will render aid from Western countries less important. Although Western aid agencies may not yet realize it, the ever-changing development agenda and the significant number of celebrities who have associated themselves with foreign assistance are no longer critical to how the Africans in many countries set their priorities.More here
Those countries nimble enough to exploit the real market advantages open to them have the opportunity to lead the rest of the continent to prosperity.