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History
Interview

Chris

NDAYIRAGIJE The second point will be to create
our own IMF and World Bank, we
are capable of doing that.
The third point will be to build two
Funding Development In Afrika infrastructures which are under
Agenda 2063: an integrated high-
By: Msingi Afrika Magazine Team speed railway – to complete it – and
the Grand Inga Dam. To be able
Interview with Chris Ndayiragije, Burundian Author and PanAf- to have one common market, to

rikanist, who speaks with us about his book ‘Africa, the Rising electrify all our capital and commer-
cial cities and to be able to link all
Economic Power’ and some of the ideas shared within. our capital cities with a fast railway.
These two projects are the main
projects under Agenda 2063, they
Please tell us about your book. creation of continental taxes for are lacking finances and they are
This book is an urgent call to all all the goods and services that are able to change the whole of Afrika
55 countries, especially our lead- exchanged between every Afrikan for good.
ers, for these 7 points we want to country. The private sector will be The fourth point is we have got the
ask them to implement. The first going there to collect these conti- Africa Standby Force, which must
and the most important call is the nental taxes. be ready, it must be strengthened to

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