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Lebohang Liepollo Pheko is a distinguished political economist and senior research fellow at Trade Collective, a renowned think tank.

An experienced public and keynote speaker, she is also an engaging programme facilitator.

She has appeared on several flagship media platforms, including Asikhulume, Interface, The Globe, Question Time, Media Monitor, SABC news, E News, CNBC Africa, Special Assignment, Big Debate, African Views, Justice Factor, 3rd Degree, Judge for Yourself, Africa 360, Morning Live, Sunrise, Motswako and Carte Blanche, and is a regular contributor to Kaya FM, PowerFM, Lotus FM Radio Pulpit, SAFM, Radio Metro, YFM, Cape Talk, Lesedi, Thobela, Motsweding, Capricorn, PowerFM and Radio 2000.

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With over 25 years of experience in cross-sector leadership, she is an accomplished activist scholar and public intellectual. Her research interests revolve around States & Afrikan nationhood, African trade relations, regional integration, globalisation in the context of African states, i

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Africa is again becoming a “country” in the popular discourse of Western media intent on rebranding the entire continent as the eternal basket case. 

Despite North Africa’s Arab Spring (which has inspired a global movement against corrupt and undemocratic leadership) and the birth of Africa’s 54th state, Southern Sudan (the result of the Sudanese people’s will expressed via a referendum), the idea of Africa as an uninterrupted landscape of human suffering and political failure remains steadfast in Western media discourse.

This perspective is anchored in the tried and tested method of presenting this vast, diverse and in many instances breathtakingly beautiful continent paradoxically, as a homogenous mass of starving people stranded on barren lands under the yoke of despotic leadership and deadly diseases…Thus also implying that Western intervention is necessary and even noble.

One need just recall Hollywood’s cinematic forays into Africa. Hollywood presents a clichéd view of Africa as the hot and humid continent that’s a breeding ground for corruption, teeming with despotic leaders and malfunctioning governments. Of course, the longsufferin