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Can an African Man Lead the UN?


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Africa has not held the UN Secretary-General position in twenty years. Macky Sall wants to change that. But his path to the world's top diplomatic job runs through a fractured African Union that never officially backed him, a home country that publicly distanced itself, and a domestic record that hands his critics easy ammunition. Learning Africa goes inside the 2026 UN Secretary-General race: the politics, the person, and the question that outlasts any single candidacy: whose turn is it to lead the world, and who decides? 

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Learning AfricaBy Amadou Dieng