In this policy brief, the Director of the UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa, Zeynu Ummer, examines, examines how today’s global disruptions—rising inequality, climate stress, geopolitical rivalry, and weakening multilateralism—interact with Africa’s development challenges. He argues that when markets operate without effective safeguards and institutions lack legitimacy, freedom becomes Predatory: opportunities concentrate among powerful actors while risks are shifted onto marginalized communities, borderlands, and fragile economies. As an alternative, the brief advances the idea of shared resilience, emphasizing social cohesion, trusted institutions, and integrated, area-based portfolio investments that address overlapping risks together. Drawing on UNDP’s operational experience and the African Union’s ROAR framework, it positions shared resilience as a practical strategy for enabling Africa not only to withstand global shocks, but to shape a more stable and inclusive global order.