A few days in Africa

Jim O'Neill | Goldman Sachs Asset Management | 15 April 2013

I spent three days in Africa last week - or to be precise, Cape Town and, briefly, Johannesburg in South Africa, as well as Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria. As I told people at all the events, if Africa could behave more together economically, then by 2050, BRICs would become BRICA from an economic perspective. For South Africa to justify BRICs becoming BRICS, it needs to help deliver the potential for the continent. Whether it happens or not will actually depend more on Nigeria, with appro...