Sub-Saharan Africa: Land of promise or of peril? (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

After more than a decade of relatively strong economic progress, sub-Saharan Africa’s aggregate GDP growth is slowing as external shocks threaten recent advances. According to the International Monetary Fund’s April 2016 Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa, between 2000 and 2015, the continent grew at an average rate of 5.5 percent.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/sub-saharan-africa-land-of-promise-or-of-peril-a-complex-narrative-of-a-continent-in-flux/