The fundamentals for continued growth remain strong in Africa, though the continent’s growth path has experienced diverging trajectories over the last five years, said Omid Kassiri, McKinsey & Company Partner in the Nairobi Office, during a speech made at the China Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Beijing on December 6, 2016.  

Kassiri spoke at the invitation of China-Africa Media Reporting and Research Project of Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication at Tsinghua University. His presentation focused on the new McKinsey report on the African economy titled Lions on the Move II: Realizing the Potential of Africa’s Economies, released by McKinsey Global Institute, the management consultant’s business and economic research arm, in September 2016.  

After the presentation, Kassiri sat down with ChinAfrica reporter Liu Jian and shared his views on the main aspects of the report, Africa’s promising opportunities and how China and Africa can better cooperate in the future.