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voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. of all the world s continents, africa is the one likely to see the greatest transformation in the course of this century. it will likely be home to almost 40% of all humanity by 2100. if, by then, africans have benefited from sustainable development, their global economic power will be enormous. if they haven t, then they could be facing cataclysmic levels of economic and environmental breakdown. my guest is the president of the african development bank, akinwumi adesina, sometimes dubbed africa s optimist in chief . is his positivity realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it s good to see you, stephen. it s great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it s going pretty well. if you take a look at the african econom ....
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You see that reflected, for instance, in the fact that the indigenous people i ve just mentioned in peru, they talk about their rights. the people of taiwan who are confronting china s repression, what have they done? they ve set up a way of domesticating international convention. the climate change. well, i m going to stop you, agnes, because. i m just giving you an example. no, no, iunderstand. and what you re saying is very important. but isn t there an even more profound problem than just the fact that repression and human rights abuse appears to be on the march in so much of the world? there is another related problem that those countries which are broadly democratic and which proclaim to respect human rights, don t seem to care so much about dealing with those countries where repression is rampant. to take china. and you ve alluded to taiwan several times, china is a country you write reports upon, but which, frankly, you and your teams are not able to work inside easily. often y ....
Of power, and they are prepared to do everything to prevent it. the importance of rights, you see that reflected, for instance, in the fact that the indigenous people i ve just mentioned in peru, they talk about their rights. the people of taiwan who are confronting china s repression, what have they done? they ve set up a way of domesticating international convention. the climate change. well, i m going to stop you, agnes, because. i m just giving you an example. no, no, iunderstand, and what you re saying is very important. but isn t there an even more profound problem than just the fact that repression and human rights abuse appears to be on the march in so much of the world? there is another related problem that those countries which are broadly democratic and which proclaim to respect human rights, don t seem to care so much about dealing with those countries where repression is rampant. to take china and you ve alluded to taiwan several times, china is a country ....