Professor Carlos Lopes launches book at Polytechnic University, Maputo

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Professor Carlos Lopes launches book at Polytechnic University, Maputo

12:51 CAT | 24 Feb 2020

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Professor Carlos Lopes’ latest book, ‘Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt’, will be launched this Monday, February 24, in the auditorium of the Higher School of High Studies and Business (ESAEN) of the Polytechnic University in Maputo, where an autograph session will also be held.

In the work, Professor Lopes draws on his extensive experience to reflect on development issues on the African continent, as shared on various blogs and speeches and lectures across the continent.

The author intends, in broad strokes, to achieve three objectives: firstly, to reverse an emerging trend in the debate on African development that, over the past two decades, seems to underestimate the challenges of the continent, as a result of an overly simplistic, sometimes even euphoric narrative; secondly, to disseminate knowledge about the continent, using historical and contextual approaches previously unavailable to the lay reader; and, lastly, to make practical suggestions to policy makers on how to set priorities for changes to be implemented in a complex but dynamic continent.

‘Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt’ represents the culmination of four years as the head of the United Nations’ main laboratory for ideas on the African continent, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, based in Addis Ababa.

The book is an attempt to widen the political space and provide alternative thinking about the considerable range of challenges to and opportunities for socio-economic transformation of the African continent, including Professor Lopes’ ideas about industrial acceleration as one of the key components of this transformation.

Source: A Verdade