Speedlinks: African Edition...

How to get on in Africa discusses a BBC program that looked at corruption in Africa, especially within the Aid agencies. In other news, GSM mobile is planning to pump a whopping $50 billion into sub-Saharan Africa over half-decade-BET.
Like its time to jump and shout. The returns on investment in communication in Africa is high enough. Okay, I am just beefing because I am not a part of it. The IMF thinks there are Better times for Africa in 2008. I think so too, apparently thinking otherwise isn't very rewarding psychologically. In Nigeria, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Prof. Chukwuma Soludo yesterday disclosed that Nigeria would need $510 billion over fifteen years to develop its railways and develop other infrastructure. I'd say make that a bajillion dollars if you want sir, we know Nigeria needs tones of money to get our infrastructure back together. Okay now lets get back to work and start with the first million dollars we recovered from these looting thugs.