Africa’s infrastructure projects are overprepared and overpriced. If that’s not common knowledge, I want to be the one to make that known.

I recently spent a week at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business doing a course on finance, contracts and risk management. Our enigmatic lecturer, Prof Daniel Gross, posed a question to the class: “What do you think Africa’s infrastructure regional default rate is?” ..

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