Does Africa Not Yet Exist?

In Nairobi, over three days, about a hundred journalists, including the author of these lines, discussed Africa as a revelation, almost a mystical enlightenment. Koumadir has discovered America on the map, the most cynical commentators would say. Some see it as the future center of the world; others as the last great untouched market on the planet; still others as the new geopolitical Eldorado where various interests now converge.