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Tim Vang
Ole Vestergaard
Githa Kurdahl
Titus Kuria
Rasmus Hansen
Louise Ravn Christiansen
Markus Sundell
A blog suggestion:
What books have you read that deepened your understanding, broadened appreciation and heightened your empathy for the land and people of Agrica?
Here are some of my recent favorites:
Twelve Good Books!
1.) ”Dead Aid” by Dambisa Moyo, explains clearly why the western world’s approach to aid for Africa hasn’t worked. Heavy.
2.) ”Numer One Ladies Detective Agency” This 11 volume series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith will introduce you to a wonderfully rich world filled with mostly lovable and 1 or 2 truly hate-able people while imparting insights into the psyche of the people of Botswana and it’s neighbours. (warning: highly empathically addictive but not likely to cause cancer!) Light and fun.
Best regards
Dale
Hi Dale,
It is a good suggestion and we will ‘build’ this part as we move along (there is a lot on the plate right now), ok?
Regarding ‘Dead Aid’, I fully agree with you that it is a must read book! Upside is that the message goes hand in hand with how MYC4 perceive this world. This said, I still think that the world needs aid to get back on its own two feet (this is a longer discussion…. hey, this could become a blog post – cheers!).
As a side remark, I am going to speak with Dambisa Moyo already Tuesday next week… I am looking forward to meeting her face to face.
http://static.85broads.com/broadcasts/London_Chapter_Investing_Africa.html
Keep all the good ideas floating,
Tim
I have now two times received a mail from Myc4 telling me that repayment has been made on one of my investments. It then goes on telling that the total amount repaid is 0.00 and my share is 0.00. How can that be explained???