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Building a New Africa, One Vision at a Time
To build a new Africa is, finally, to build one vision at a time — through the accumulation of countless smaller projects, each insisting on a different future.
Lerato Mokoena
·5 min read
To build a new Africa is, finally, to build one vision at a time — not through a single grand project but through the accumulation of countless smaller ones, each in its own way insisting on a different future.
This is the story Republic Africa exists to tell: not the Africa of stereotype but the Africa of intention, of people deciding what their continent should be and then setting about making it so.
The work of building
Every story in this magazine is, in its way, a brick in that construction.
A new Africa will not be announced. It will be assembled.
Written by
Lerato MokoenaEditor-in-Chief
Lerato Mokoena leads the Republic Africa newsroom, setting the editorial direction for the continent's most ambitious digital magazine. Two decades in African journalism, formerly across broadcast and print.
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