Towards Africa's autonomous development

This Strategic Report 2018 is dedicated to the autonomous development of Africa that His Majesty King Mohammed VI has always called for. Autonomy does not mean being independent. It embodies Africa's ability to decide for herself and make her voice heard in the community of nations. The first part of the report aims to understand the African continent, while highlighting its main characteristics, in an approach that is meant to be African and therefore different, from the usual Western perception. The second part of the report, of a prospective nature, is devoted to the challenges Africa will face by 2050. Alongside climate change, it highlights three major nodes of the future: the urban sprawl, rural transformation and the challenge of security and governance. The third part of the report, starting from this global panorama, focuses on the identification of the levers of Africa's autonomous development, namely the energy transition, the digital transition, the economic transition and economic governance, as well as the springs of autonomy such as human capital, the development of Ubuntu and the reconciliation of Africans with themselves and with nature. It also highlights Morocco's current contribution as well as the role that the Kingdom could play, in the future, in favour of the autonomous development of this immense continent. -- Page 10-11.