Extracted from Description: “The fourth panel ‘How Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?’ at the SOAS Africa Conference 2017 at SOAS University of London on 21 July 2017 – Understanding Sub-Saharan Africa’s Growth Paths; The Relevance of the Concept of Cumulative Causation Alessio Iocchi (L’Orientale, University of Naples) – Security Challenges in the Lake Chad Basin: A narrowing narrative, a broad issue Jane Bryce (University of the West Indies) – African Futurism: Rewriting the Great Book Chege Githiora (SOAS) - Language, Linguistics and Governance CO-CHAIRS: Mashood Baderin (SOAS) - Conference Convenor - and Andrew Thomas (Hunton & Williams)”