After capitalism came for its muscles, it's now coming for its stomachs.
Over the past decade six of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries were African. In eight of the past ten years, Africa has grown faster than East Asia, including Japan. Even allowing for the knock-on effect of the northern hemisphere’s slowdown, the IMF expects Africa to grow by 6% this year and nearly 6% in 2012, about the same as Asia.The commodities boom is partly responsible.
By the way, the richest black person in the world is not Oprah Winfrey but Aliko Dangote, "the Nigerian cement king."
