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Africa's not boring enough. And it's definitely not 'mineral rich': Bright Simons
Bright Simons describes himself a "systems change agent". The label suits a man with an obsession for the boring things in life. He is the founder and president of mPedigree, a Ghanaian social enterprise that builds technology to protect supply chains for medicines, seeds and other goods but he also advises governments and multinational companies around the world.
- Why the myth of Africa’s natural wealth needs to die
- How enormous multimillion-dollar projects can disappear
- The part that fakery plays in our world
- And what’s not wrong with Mercator’s map
- One solution, Bright says, is to focus more on the boring parts of policy implementation - supply chains, impact studies and forecasting.
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