When UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared that “Africa has everything it takes to become a renewable superpower” at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), it was more than.
Japan is quietly but decisively deepening its footprint in Africa. In a continent long shaped by Chinese investment, Western aid, and increasing Gulf capital, Japan is carving out its own.
Japan has appropriated $30 billion as aid for the development of African human resources and to promote economic growth. The country’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida who disclosed this online said.
By Ehis Ayere ehis@old.africanleadership.co.uk Japan will over the next three years invest U.S. $30 billion in private and public support for the development of infrastructures and the expansion of education.
