World Economic Forum on Africa

Every year, the World Economic Forum holds a powwow focused on Africa, and every year, it's in Cape Town. Beautiful as the city may be, you have to wonder whether that's the only place in Africa to which the hundreds of attendees -- CEOs, ministers and heads of government, academics, assorted members of entourages -- will go. This year's theme, "Capitalizing on Opportunity," suggests the opportunity is for Africans. In reality, it's marketers and investors from outside the continent who seem most eager to capitalize on the potential of a region where economic growth has exceeded 5% for four years running. In a sign of that enthusiasm, two of the meeting's cochairs are E. Neville Isdell, CEO of Coca-Cola, and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chairman of Dubai World, the ambitious holding company with the regrettably colonialist slogan "The sun never sets on Dubai World."-- Jeff Chu

From June 4-6, 2008
http://www.weforum.org/en/events/WorldEconomicForumonAfrica2008/index.ht...