Another McKinsey quarterly issue focuses on Africa. Africa is obviously becoming trendy. The magazine has an article by Paul Collier titled "The Case for investing in Africa". The challenge is to not turn Africans into large scale consumers but to enable truly sustainable, human-scale, people friendly, poverty-alleviating solutions that not only help Africa but help the rest of the world. 


I think the existing risks and costs of doing business in the remote regions of Africa create opportunities for those who are thinking beyond just profit but actual development. The opportunity in Africa right now is not just investment opportunities but development opportunities. One of the challenges is to create investment opportunities that benefit everyone, from the development opportunities that exist presently.