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realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it's good to see you, stephen. it's great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it's going pretty well. if you take a look at the african economic outlook we had from the african development bank, the gdp growth rate, gdp growth rates last year was 3.1%. this year, it's 3.7%. and next year, it's going to be 4.3%. now, why that is important is that that is well above the global average. you still have ten out of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world b...

voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. of all the world's continents, africa is the one likely to see the greatest transformation in the course of this century. it will likely be home to almost 40% of all humanity by 2100. if, by then, africans have benefited from sustainable development, their global economic power will be enormous. if they haven't, then they could be facing cataclysmic levels of economic and environmental breakdown. my guest is the pres...

Lessons from the G20’s failed attempts at restructuring sovereign debt must be learned. Why not explore debt-for-development swaps, where loans are in effect turned into investments, and market-based alternatives such as packaging the debt into securities?

Ghana has reached a deal to restructure $5.4bn (R98.81bn) of loans with its official creditors, the finance ministry said on Friday, a milestone in the country's quest for debt relief as it charts its way out of the worst economic crisis in a generation.

It stood at 238 per cent of global GDP last year as public debt remained stubbornly high