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Here is a number that should stop you in your tracks.
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Africa's GDP grew by 3.1% in 2024.
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The AFDP projects it hit 4.2% in 2025, faster than the global average.
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By almost every headline measure, Africa is growing.
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And yet, by 2025, Africa's share of the global population living in extreme poverty had risen from 4 in 10 people to 7 in 10 people.
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In 1990, it was 1 in 10.
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So how is it possible
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that a continent whose GDP is growing faster than the global
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average is simultaneously home to more of the world's poor than at any point in modern history?
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That is not a paradox.
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That is a policy failure.
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And that is what we are getting into today.
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My name is Tosin.
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Welcome to Africa on Monday, your weekly YouTube channel simplifying African news and amplifying context to deliver insights that matter.
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Let's start with what growth actually means in Africa.
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because the headline number hides everything important.
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When economists say Africa grew by 4.2% in 2025, what they mean is that the total value of goods and services produced across the continent went up.
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What they do not tell you is who captured that growth.
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The World Bank's own analysis is blunt.
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Per capita income gains in sub-Saharan Africa will remain inadequate to make significant progress in reducing extreme poverty.
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In over a quarter of the region's economies, Per capita income will not recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2027.
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And here is a structural reason why.
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Africa's growth is overwhelmingly commodity-driven and road-based.
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It flows through oil fields, mineral extraction, and urban construction.
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It accrues to the people who own the land, the licenses, and the contracts.
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It does not flow through the labor market in the way that, say, manufacturing-led growth in East Asia did.
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When a country builds a road, the GDP goes up.
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The woman selling Indomie by the roadside does not automatically earn more.
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The result is what economists call K-shaped growth.
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The top of the K keeps climbing, the bottom keeps falling, and the middle, the class that was supposed to be Africa's great economic story,
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is being pushed out.
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And there is a second problem that rarely gets said out loud.
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Africa's GDP growth is not much higher than its population growth.
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In 2025, Africa's GDP grew by 4.2%.
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Its population grew at around 2.3%.
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That means per capita income, the actual amount of wealth per person barely moved.
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China's economic miracle was built on double-digit growth, 10% a year for three decades.
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That kind of growth outpaces population growth so decisively that it lifts living standards across the board.
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Africa is not there.
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And until it is, headline GDP growth is almost meaningless for the average person on the street.
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Now let's talk about the top of the K because the numbers here are crazy.
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In 2000, Africa had no official billionaires.
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I say official because some politicians' bank accounts probably told a different story.
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As of July 2025, Africa had 23 billionaires.
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Their combined wealth had grown by 56% in just 5 years, reaching 112.6 billion dollars.
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In a single year, 2024-2025, billionaire wealth in Africa grew by 36.5%.
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That is more than double the global average rate of billionaire wealth growth.
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To put that in human terms, just 4 of Africa's richest billionaires,
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Ali Kodangote, Johan Rupert, Nikki Oppenheimer and Naseh Sawiris,
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held in July 2025 $57.4 billion between them.
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That was more than the combined wealth of 750 million people, half the continent.
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And it is not just the billionaires.
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Africa's richest 5% now hold nearly $4 trillion in wealth, more than double the combined wealth of the remaining 95% of the continent's population.
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The richest 10% of sub-Saharan Africans capture 55% of all national income.
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The top 1% alone and 20%.
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In South Africa, the continent's most industrialized economy, the top 10% hold around 66% of total national income,
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while the bottom half receives only 6%.
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It has the highest Gini coefficient of any major economy on earth.
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Nearly half, 23 of the world's 50 most unequal countries, are African.
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But the part that isn't getting enough attention is what is happening to the middle.
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a medical bill, a drought, and they fall back.
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And that is exactly what has been happening.
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In Nigeria, one of Africa's largest economies, real purchasing power has been eroded by inflation and currency devaluation.
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In Zambia, the middle class contracted sharply after the 2020 debt default.
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In South Africa, there is an entire category of people described as not poor, but not middle class either.
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A squeezed segment with no safety net and no upward mobility.
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Meanwhile, the governments that should be building the floor are cutting it.
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95% of the world's poorest countries, many of which are African, cut spending on education, health, and social protection to service debt.
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And here is the tax picture.
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For every dollar African governments raise from income and wealth taxes, they collect nearly $3 from VAT,
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a consumption tax that hits the poor hardest.
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On average, the continent collects just 0.3% of GDP in wealth taxes, less than any other region on Earth.
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So what is the alternative?
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Because I want to be clear, this is not an argument against growth.
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It is an argument about the kind of growth that actually changes lives.
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The modelling is stark.
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If African governments simply tax their riches 1% an extra 1% on wealth and 10% more on income,
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it would generate $66 billion a year, 2.29% of Africa's GDP.
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That is enough to close the funding gaps for free quality education
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and provide electricity to every home and business still in the dark.
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Not foreign aid, not debt, tax revenue from people who can afford it.
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But the deeper structural fix is about what kind of growth Africa builds next.
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Commodity exports and construction create GDP.
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They do not create a middle class.
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Manufacturing creates a middle class.
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Services create a middle class.
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Industrialization, the kind that employs millions of people at rising wages, is what turns South Korea,
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Taiwan, and China from poor countries into prosperous ones.
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Africa has the youngest population on earth.
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It has the labor.
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What it does not yet have is the industrial policy to put
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that labor to work in ways that distribute the gains broadly.
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This is where I land on this.
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Africa is not failing to grow.
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Africa is growing in a way that concentrates the gains at the top and leaves the majority behind.
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That is a choice made through tax policy, through debt agreements, through the decision to cut public services rather than tax wealth.
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And this can be changed.
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The continent has the data, it has the examples.
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What it needs is the political will to build economies that work for everyone, not just the four people who between them hold more wealth than half a billion Africans.
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If this episode made you think differently about Africa's growth story, subscribe, because the following video,
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we are going into something that affects every single person in the African diaspora directly.
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We are talking about the $109 billion that Africans sent home every year, and why a significant chunk of it never actually arrives.
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That is next.
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