Britain, America, Japan, South Africa, the Congo.

It was done in South Africa.

And the reason is what happened in South Africa Nelson Mandela.

And in South Africa, we had taken our innovators, and many of us had gone there share with the colleagues in South Africa as to how innovation can become a means of liberation from the drudgery that people have.

The smartest one, first to come in, was the MTN company of South Africa.

Now Africa, Sub Saharan Africa Sub Saharan Africa has been the area of the world most resistant to growth.

Here you have Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Arab states, East Europe, Latin America, and OECD.

The yellow on there is the Americas dark blue is Africa brown is Europe green is the Middle East and this light blue is South Asia.

This is a plant here that insects in South Africa just love, and they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom.

Something which I find utterly enchanting about South African music making is that it's so free.

And visiting some pretty incredible places, places like Mongolia, Cambodia, New Guinea, South Africa, Tanzania twice I was here a month ago.

Now it emerged early on in the first rehearsal period that one of those white performers had, in his previous incarnation, been a member of the South African police force.

But even this is not a fair representation of Africa, because it's an average, it's an average speed of reduction in Africa.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Africa s Path from Poverty

It says, Africa Open for Business.

It was rather dull. But I came back to Africa at the age of 17, as a volunteer teacher to Lesotho, which is a tiny country, surrounded at that time by apartheid South Africa.

These are all countries in southern Africa where between one in seven, and one in three of all adults, are infected with HIV.

This is surprising, of course, because in the order of six to eight times fewer people live in Africa than outside Africa.

Fans of Egypt and Algeria, across the Arab world and beyond, proved that this Saturday as their teams went head to head to qualify for the World Cup finals in South Africa.

The truth is sub Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden and yet only three percent of the world's health care workers.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a leader of South Africa s democratic transition, has described an alternative restorative justice that focuses on the healing of breaches, the redressing of imbalances, the restoration of broken relationships.

So even though basking sharks are found throughout the world, you couldn't tell the difference genetically from one from the Pacific, the Atlantic, New Zealand, or from Ireland, South Africa.

A lot of the funding that I have managed to raise has gone directly to Treatment Action Campaign and the incredible work that they do, and are still continuing to do in South Africa.

But also the non Muslim communities of North Africa the Animists, even some Christians and even a Jewish tribe in North Africa is known to practice female circumcision.

Does this then mean that there is after all some absolute difference between people outside Africa and inside Africa in that people outside Africa have this old component in their genome from these extinct forms of humans, whereas Africans do not?

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

Not only is this year s world cup the first to be hosted on the African continent but it s the first world cup to have an official dance inspired by moves from football pitches all around South Africa.

There's Tuareg shoes from North Africa. There's a Kifwebe mask.

In 1961, Maya Angelou, already a civil rights worker, and her then partner Vusumzi Make, an exiled activist from South Africa (he was a leading Pan Africanist Congress member), moved to Cairo, Egypt, where she found work at a small radical newspaper.

Layma said to me later, It's a taboo, you know, in West Africa.

And they are heterosexuals who come from countries that have traditions of polygamy and relatively high levels of female autonomy, and almost all of those countries are in east or southern Africa.

Finally, South Africa s problems reflect a loss of confidence in the government, endemic corruption, massive infrastructure needs, and restrictive labor market and foreign investment regulation. And, in terms of reform, President Jacob Zuma is not headed in the right direction.

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms from 2,000 year old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an underground forest in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

Thirteen species highest diversity we can find in one single area in Africa.

And since we mixed elsewhere, I'm pretty sure that one day, when we will perhaps have a genome of also these earlier forms in Africa, we will find that they have also mixed with early modern humans in Africa.

And each day, a thousand babies a thousand babies are born each day with HIV in Africa.

BJ But through our investigation, we have to seek the wildest places in Africa.

With the adoption of the hymn by the ANC as its official anthem, the song was sung at many official events.

And sometimes just taking an interest in the individual, in the fellows you've met, and the businesspeople you've met, it can make a huge difference, especially in Africa, because usually the individual in Africa carries a lot of people behind them.

So again, I look at the globe here and the disproportionate share of HIV in Africa.

In Africa there were countries fighting for their independence Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Angola.

Fortunately, the international community has woken up. An initiative of African finance ministers, chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki, is investigating the issue on the continent, where up to 1.4 trillion was lost to illicit outflows over the last three decades.

What a place, what an ideal place to create an ecosystem that could build the hardware and the software needed for their schools. And to my surprise, I learned in South Africa they have 18 dialects, I always thought they only had two English and Afrikaans but it turns out they have 18 dialects.

Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.