How The West Sees Africa

Ahead of the US-Africa Summit this week, and given that President Obama explained "Africa also happens to be one of the continents where America is most popular," we thought the following map of just what the West thinks of Africa would be helpful...

h/t @Rykov

Of course, as President Obama explained yesterday, the US is different...

We are "deeply interested in working with Africa, not to extract natural resources alone, which traditionally has been the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world, but now because Africa is growing and you’ve got thriving markets and you’ve got entrepreneurs and extraordinary talent among -- among the people there... and we think that we can create U.S. jobs and send U.S. exports to Africa."

Comments

[d edwards]

Here's a map for you:

The northern one-third is full of barbaric islamic nutjobs;

The central region is an incubator for all manner of disease, from HIV to Ebola to gawd knows what;

Maybe the southern tip might be worth a shit, like Cape Town, Johannesburg.

[AnAnonymous]

Actually, the north had some boats.

[novictim]

China buys Oil and minerals but gets EBOLA and an empty warehouse.

We will never hear about the Ebola cases in CHINA. Ever.  But the empty warehouse stories are hard to hide.  When you call in debt, it either materializes or it does not.