Amid Global Gloom, the Good News From Africa

Well, being in SA and working at the stock exchange, I have been following international financial events rather closely. We have been relatively untouched by the financial crisis - our Finance Minister Trevor Manual has been extremely sensible during his tenure. But it looks like the rest of Africa is doing well:

Africa is widely regarded as a world leader by measure of basket-case symptoms — war, disease, famine and humanitarian disaster. The continent has a greater share of its people mired in poverty than any other, and hosts the world's two greatest humanitarian crises, Darfur and Somalia. So it may come as a bit of a surprise to many that much of Africa is doing rather nicely, in some cases recording healthier economic expansion than in the industrialized world

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What is the best place to be in times of Global Meltdown? It seems Africa, the Cradle of Mankind.