I just got an email advertising the conference “Africa Works”. The first sentence in their website illustrates the premise behind the event:
Africa in the 21th century has already proven to be the source of endless possibilities and trends. In the first decade of the 21st century, the perception of Africa has changed dramatically from being the ‘hopeless continent’ to being a continent of ‘lion economies’, analogous to the Asian tigers.
“African lions”! “Asian Tigers!”. And of course, because I love to look for context, I checked who’s in the board of the Netherlands-African Business Council organizing this. And then I shook my head to the point of dislocation.
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