Africa: The Next Frontier of Outsourcing

A Culturally Healthy America would be playing the Africa card instead of the "race" card.

Africa needs to address the following issues if it wants to be a serious player: 1) [It needs] a redundant and reliable Internet broadband infrastructure; 2) more IT education; 3) government needs to invest in IT or business parks for outsourcing businesses; 4) the regulatory environment needs improving; 5) a change in mind-set, e.g., [companies] cannot depend on government handouts; and 6) more entrepreneurs to build markets, probably having the diaspora to come back and start building the Infosyses and Wipros of Africa.

China is winning the minds and harts battle in Africa because the American strategy is out dated. Building a training center like Oprah did on the second largest continent in the world would be more useful then building a 600 million white elefant embassy in Iraq.