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Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

Africa is on the rise.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.

Africa will thrive.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.