If you play word association with the word Africa, like as not, people will focus on many negative stereotypes - civil unrest, unstable or totalitarian government, institutional corruption and abject poverty.
The trouble is, all this was true of many African nations, but like all stereotypes, they obscure the true reality of a situation. In this case, ‘was' is the operative word, because as with many...
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