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Africa is the future.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Africa needs access to markets.

Africa is on the rise.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

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.

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Africa will thrive.