EAM Jaishankar says India 'betting on Africa's rise', seeks to take India-Nigeria ties to "higher level"

India is betting on Africa's rise because, "by any objective assessment, today there is so much growing for Africa in terms of demography, in terms of resources, in terms of ambition, in terms of, increasingly, of policy alignments. That clearly potent, a very different, much more positive future in the very short term, he said. "We are betting on Africa because...we have a shared past, not always a happy history, not between us, but between us and some other people. But it is a history which has engendered an enormous solidarity.