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Investing in Transportation – High risk, big returns, a noticeable absence
When I was a teacher in Uganda in the early 1970s, I would travel the 200-mile distance from Kampala, the...
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Road Shows and Visits – Investment missions from Nigeria and Rwanda
It was a carefully orchestrated road show that saw some of Nigeria?s brightest government and business stars selling potential investors...
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Cars on the Continent – Driven, distributed, fixed but not quite made
I learned to drive in Uganda in 1973 with a baby blue, stick shift Volkswagen Variant station wagon. It was...
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The Year of Africa – Buzz without bling is just buzz
The world?s wealthiest nations are calling 2005 the ?Year of Africa.? They?re turning their attention, collectively and individually, to doing...
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The New Pizarros – Setting the stage for a third partition
In an article published in the Feb. 19 edition of The East African Standard, Kenyan economist James Shikwati warns that...
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The Final Frontier – Where long-term, risk-oriented investors can profit
When one of the world?s most recognizable names in financial services says that Africa presents ?the final frontier? for investors...
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Trading With Africa – Ports ahoy!
For decades, Africa?s officials and private-sector leaders have clamored for ?trade, not aid.? Increased trade through unfettered access to markets...
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Corporate Citizenship GE?s health-care initiative
First posed some six years ago, the question was like a drumbeat that had no end. ?When are we going...
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Where?s the Action? – Follow the transportation and logistics firms
You can tell where the business action is by the way transportation companies and other logistics providers behave. Moves this...
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