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February 11, 2017

Africa is the future, did you know that?

Add it all up, but if you’re looking for positive momentum, it’s in Africa.
Economic growth, increases in education, increases in social media, growth of a middle class. The increase not only in productivity but also in the sophistication of the markets. All of it. Sure, it’s miserable in so many places; and there are plenty of wars. But in Accra you can feel the energy of the future like a primal force that moves around the currents in a rain-swollen river; it scares you and there’s no certainty or security and you wonder if you should jump in but you also know that if you do it will take you somewhere new and exciting. In Accra you can see why. Accra, and the Future | Joel D. Hirst's Blog

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 11, 2017 7:46 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I don't have much hope for black Africa. I was in Rhodesia and saw what happened after the blacks took over and ran off the whites. The joke is that you used to go to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe and now you go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.

Posted by: Ray at February 11, 2017 8:50 AM

Perhaps look at Rwanda, Ray. Amazing things are happening there.

Posted by: Jewel at February 11, 2017 10:21 PM

As long as corruption, bribery and kleptocracy are ingrained into the culture through the entire African continent, Africa will always remain a benighted, impoverished blight on the earth.

It's been that way for thousands of years and not likely to change in the next thousand.

Posted by: Galway Boy at February 12, 2017 10:38 AM

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