After more than a decade, external security intervention has left the Sahel region more fragmented, militarised and violent.

As climate crises deepen, Africa must turn its hard-won experience and local knowledge into global leadership on climate, health, food systems and clean energy.

Wealthy nations will need to help fund clean energy, green industrial growth and mineral processing.

The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.