Wef Davos 2025: Africas Positive Energy Can Light Darkening Globe

The annual World Economic Forum at Davos comes when the developed world is teetering towards the far-right and protectionism is threatening global economic growth. But in this maelstrom Africa is bucking the trend and perhaps showing what can be achieved through positive energy. For the past few years the annual World Economic Forum WEF at Davos in Switzerland had taken place with the world gripped by a series of concentric and overlapping crises the term polycrisis is an understated but apt description.

It was considered by those who are deep thinkers in these matters that polycrisis was something of a black swan event. But it now seems that polycrisis is here to stay and that it is taking more sinister, weirder shapes.

This is a very disquieting feeling. If you can identify what it is that is causing you alarm, then no matter how hideous it may be, it can be dealt with using intelligence, knowledge, strength and resolve. After all, virtually all our heroic stories are based on overcoming just such terrifying monsters.

But when you cannot tell exactly what the danger is or where it is coming from or what shape it will take or what effect it will have, you become unhinged from all your cast-iron realities. You dont know what or who to trust anymore. Centuries old values on which we have erected massive personal and collective edifices seem to crumble into dust before our eyes. This is a very dangerous time. Its the sort of time that leads to the type of madness we have seen in the World Wars and some revolutionary movements the indiscriminate slaughter of millions and wholesale destruction of civilisations.

History tells us that such armageddons are always preceded by tell-tale signs that warn of impending catastrophe if only we can read them and find ways to prevent the deluge. Alas, history also tell us that we are in the habit of ignoring such harbingers until it is too late.