Will the Cloud bring life back to Africa ?
New life has started to bloom across this drought-ridden continent. These green shoots are the fruit of the last decade and a half of increasingly feverish activity. Democracy and mining spring to mind, but what about retail? What about banking? And of course mobile – the great enabler ! Chinese colonization proceeds with alacrity while their Global counterparts dawdle. But is Sino capital and labour what Africa really needs? Yes – but only if there is no alternative. The rest of the World, suffering from post 2008 crisis lethargy, is slowly starting to realize that Africa should form part of their longer term plans. The UK chugs along barely in positive territory while Osborn pats himself on the back for having squeezed the life out of the UK which he now kicks down the road and calls it growth ! The Tea Party almost dragged the USA (and the World) to the brink of an economic moras...