"The world has much to learn from Africa." This was the message by His Highness to the opening session of the Nation Media Group’s Kusi Ideas Festival last week in Kigali, Rwanda. The Kusi Ideas Festival was to discuss challenges Africa is likely to face over the next 60 years, and offer creative ideas on how to address them. Lessons learned from AKDN’s work over the past 100 years provide tested and successful solutions to addressing many of these challenges. In considering for example, how Africa will feed its growing population, AKDN can share its experience of working with 500,000 small-scale farmers, by providing seeds and fertilisers, know-how and training to increase productivity, guaranteed purchases of crops, processing of foodstuff within Africa and access to otherwise inaccessible markets.