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African leaders call for tackling growth hurdles

By EDITH MUTETHYA in Nairobi, Kenya | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2026-04-27 10:05
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As Africa pushes to industrialize its economies, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has urged the continent to draw on China's experience, saying discipline, ideological clarity, governance and a strong internal market are key to economic transformation.

Speaking at The Africa We Build summit in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Friday, Museveni said China was still very poor in 1978 when it began opening up its economy, but managed to achieve rapid development because it maintained clear priorities and invested strategically.

China's progress was driven by factors such as discipline and a deliberate focus on economic development, he said.

Africa's main challenge is not the lack of capital but ideological disorientation among leaders and societies, he noted.

Museveni criticized persisting conflicts across the continent, saying such instability undermines efforts to build infrastructure and develop economies.

Ideological disorientation often results in weak governance systems, which in turn affect human capital development, including education and skills, he added.

He also mentioned Africa's fragmented markets as another major obstacle to economic growth and industrialization.

African countries should learn from China's example of leveraging a large domestic market to drive production and industrial expansion, he said.

Museveni urged African governments to remove tariff barriers that continue to limit intracontinental trade, saying stronger regional integration would help expand markets for African goods and support industrial growth.

Kenyan President William Ruto said some other regions faced challenges similar to Africa's but rose above them, noting that the continent is constrained by its acceptance of the status quo through acquiescence, complacency and limited ambition.

"We must raise the scale of our ambition and refuse to be defined by what is merely functional," Ruto said.

Many of the countries that Africa admires today once stood where the continent now stands, but made choices that changed their trajectory through disciplined leadership, bold policies and an unrelenting commitment to progress, he said.

Driven by resolve

"Transformation is neither accidental nor a miracle. It is deliberate, it is intentional and it is within reach if we have the resolve to pursue it, to reach higher and to reject average," Ruto said.

Investors will not drive Africa's development unless African countries take the lead themselves, he said. "It doesn't start with entrepreneurs and industrialists; it starts with leaders, because the challenge we have in our continent is the challenge of leadership. Leaders must make the right choices."

Samaila Zubairu, chief executive of the Africa Finance Corporation, said leadership is central to achieving Africa's development ambitions.

"When thinking about development, we need to embrace the idea of thinking about the next 15 or 20 years," Zubairu said.

A continent that cannot refine enough of its own fuel, produce enough of its own fertilizer, process enough of its own minerals or transmit enough of its own power remains exposed to shocks it did not create, he said. "That is why Africa's infrastructure gap has become a resilience gap, and nowhere is this more visible than in food and fertilizers."

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