There’s been a few meetings around the amount and quality of aid to Africa over the last year. It’s good to see this debate, and a lot of aid has been given to various countries in Africa, from the donor darlings to the Zambias. Is it really working as it should do? Is there another [...]
This was sent in by someone last week:
“By that, I mean livestock chilling not just on the side of the road, but amidst heavy traffic. I’ll never forget when I first arrived in Kampala and saw a cow chilling downtown. Sometimes you go weeks without seeing as much as a goat meandering on a highway, [...]
It’s a classic
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A very interesting article I saw on ShortList. Read the full article here. I sure as hell will be eating breakfast as much as possible.
On a slightly different tangent - don’t go overboard unless you have won 10 gold medals and are looking to win some more!
I found this article about Uganda. I thought it was quite appropriate:
http://jhabola.blogspot.com/2007/07/uganda-gifted-but-not-competitive.html
What is the most noteworthy aspect of the internet usage statistics for Africa? I’d say it’s the rate of growth of internet usage almost continent wide. Up to 10 million users in Nigeria? Even in Uganda, 2.0 million users. That is very encouraging.
It suggests the telecommunications race is beginning to pick up and significant numbers [...]
One consistent story coming out of Africa is not the political problems, wars, marginalisation of the continents people - or anything like that. It is the regular warnings readers get about the population of the countries and specifically Uganda. The facts are disturbing, which ever side of the argument you are on. Up to between [...]
The answer is about 10 years ago. There is an increasing number of deals involving the African continent’s telcos.
There was Celtel
then the MTN deal (or nearly)
and now, Ghana
Those who got in early are seriously minting. Those who have the cash to get their hands on an African telco must be working very hard to put [...]
