Investment Opportunities in Africa: How to Invest For Profit and Purpose
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Africa.
A continent made of up 54 different and diverse countries comprising over 1 billion people.
The mere mention of that name elicits images of pot-bellied children with houseflies swirling around their mouths.
 Wars. Poverty. Corruption. Hopelessness. Rooted at the bottom of every possible statistic.
Even though Africa boasts around 25% of the world’s population, it only accounts for between 3-5% of direct Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and carries 24% of its disease burden.
On 13th May 2000, The Economist, one of the world’s premier news magazines had a telling headline:
Africa: The hopeless Continent.