Africa’s Growth Problem isn’t Capital; it’s Leadership without Collaboration

In this opinion piece, Langa challenges business leaders to confront why continental scale remains elusive despite abundant capital, talent and ambition.

Africa doesn’t have a capital problem: it has a collaboration problem. For decades, we’ve convinced ourselves that more investment is the answer, but Ray Langa, Group Chief Executive of Leagas Delaney South Africa (www.LeagasDelaney.co.za), argues we’ve been asking the wrong question. The continent’s real constraint isn’t money but the leadership discipline we’ve yet to master: building together across borders. In this opinion piece, Langa challenges business leaders to confront why continental scale remains elusive despite abundant capital, talent and ambition.

For many years, Africa’s growth conversation has centred on capital, how much of it we lack, how little of it flows into the continent, and how dependent our future is on attracting more of it.