The long walk to freedom
Some time ago, I posted a few links on the question of aid to Africa, and included a pointer to some fascinating statistics maintaned by Rav Casley Gera, who runs African Development for the Completely Bloody Ignorant. Rav informs me that the data has been updated. Instead of just detailing the history of government in Africa by country, the new and improved African History in Ten Seconds chart is weighted by population, to show the proportion of Africans living under various forms of government. Since a prerequisite for prosperity is liberty — to work, communicate and to trade — this graph makes for uplifting reading:
Do visit his site for more detail, including lots of data, analysis and different views on African development. (Apologies to Madiba for stealing his book title.)
