[dynachrome]

Violence, corruption, and ebola. The Chinese can have it. Their rules of engagement are a lot different than ours.

[Track9]

I imagine they already own half the ports.

[17th Miss Regt]

"When you look at the African economies right now, their basic problem is fragmentation.”

Wrong. Tribalism, corruption and so on plague Africa. This is a push for centralized planning of economies on a continental scale. The problem with Africa is not capitalism, it is a lack of capitalism.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

From the title:
"World’s largest free trade zone to become reality this week"

Yep. Free to trade wars, diseases, slavery, rape, murder, poverty AND MUHAMEDANISM! But, of course, I repeat myself.

If I had money to invest in business expansion, would I invest in an expansion into Africa? I'd have to give that some thought.

...well, I thought about it. Perhaps when HELL FREEZES OVER!

[RightGeek]

their basic problem is fragmentation

Their basic problem is that they are poorly governed sh*tholes.

[aquila48]

The Bell Curve.

[trisham]

Africa is a hellhole.