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Ndongo Samba Sylla is head of programs at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Dakar, Senegal. He is author of The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich and Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story.
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
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