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From Africa rising to, How did we get here?

Africa is living in a bubble of deception, equating infrastructure development with civilisation. There are airports and roads and developments taking place everywhere and this is good. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA | NMG

By  WALE AKINYEMI

I was at a meeting recently with the CEO of a company that sits very high on the Fortune 500 list. In fact this company is on the Fortune 50.

He made an interesting assertion that based on current African GDP levels, his company could partner with one other firm and basically out do the entire continent. That was a low blow.

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