If I Were Ramaphosa: A Mathematician’s Answer to AfriExit
By Tim Akano
AfriExit is no longer theory. It is happening in South Africa as I write — and the continent is watching. Ghana has summoned South Africa’s high commissioner. Nigeria has evacuated citizens. The African Union is being asked to debate what one government has called xenophobic attacks against African nationals. This is no longer a domestic squabble over jobs and services — it is a continental credibility crisis, and it is unfolding in real time.
South Africa today is a Partial Differential Equation (PDE — mathematical equations so difficult to solve, but nonetheless solvable by math geniuses) with too many boundary conditions and not enough solved variables.
60% youth unemployment.
