Thoughts on Africa's super rich

From Charcoal Ink Sun Jan 6 2013, 20:27:17

AlJazeera have a short piece about elections in Angola and part of the piece talks about Angola's immense oil wealth. Angola is rolling in wealth for a specific group of people because of the petrodollars that are running through cashflows in Angola since the country is the second largest producer in Africa of oil after [...]

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