Geopolitical Situation
In 2012, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds", the fourth installment in the National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future.
Megatrends about Africa:
1- "Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean will remain vulnerable, nevertheless, to state failure through 2030, providing safe havens for both global criminal and terrorist networks and local insurgents".
2- "Many African countries have the opportunity to greatly advance while others are likely to be let behind, creating a more diverse Africa in 2030. African countries will be able to choose from the best-proven approaches and technologies in the developed world without needing to adapt and reform legacy systems, but rent-seeking, patronage, populism, and corruption may tempt many and challenge long-term planning. Elections are now frequent in Africa, but the quality and rooting of democracy are often shallow and subject to regression."
3-With other regions rapidly aging, increasingly a disproportionate number of Africans will make up the global working age population. However, the trend of individual empowerment will only slowly be evidenced in the most impoverished regions, and Africa will be catching up to the world in the introduction of existing and new technologies.