so until we learn to write our own story as a continent all stories will be in the perspective
of others and for a long time Africa has been profiled as a as a continent of poverty disease
conflict and everything negative welcome to candid Africa truthful and an apologetic are year ago in
shamal Chek we decided to shift the narrative about Africa and our relationship with climate
action in Nairobi last September we Consolidated our place and decided that we going to have our
narrative As Told by ourselves for those of you who attended the uh Africa climate Summit
in Nairobi I remember saying the African proverb that said until the lion learned to write his own
story all stories glorified the hunter so until we learn to write our own story as a continent
all stories will be in the perspective of others and for a long time Africa has been
profiled as a as a continent of poverty disease conflict and everything negative we are writing
a new narrative about Africa Africa is not just about conflict or disease or poverty Africa is
much more Africa is about 60% of the world's renewable energy resources Africa is about
40% of the world's mineral resources necessary for energy transition Africa holds 65% of the
world's uncultivated arable land that can be used for smart agriculture Agri Africa has the largest
natural carbon sinks anywhere in the world and much more important importantly Africa has the
youngest population with the potential for the future to be the largest market and we are doing
everything to consolidate Africa into one market that we can profile with 1.4 billion people and a
GDP of 3.5 trillion that is the new Narrative of our continent so the conversation we are
going to have in this meeting this afternoon is about investment opportunities it's about
financing opportunities and it's about access to Market those are the three most important
things we're going to have a conversation about and it requires us to collaborate to
work together to build a huge uh Consortium of collaborators us and we are inviting the rest
of the world to look at Africa as a continent of opportunity there we have it that has been
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