[This Day] In the decade leading up to 2010- 2015, global discourse on Africa's development prospects adopted a new mantra: Africa Rising. Major influential media echoed it and the message went to major investors, increasing the interest and appetite of Africa's traditional partners while luring new ones to discover what used to be the 'dark continent' in every sense. The dominant narrative in Western investment and economic development circles then was a positive prognosis to the effect that the 'dark continent' was
