ARTICLE: "In Africa, Outages Stifle a Boom: Electricity Cuts Plague 35 Nations; Waiting in Gakuto, by Sarah Childress, Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2008, p. A1.
Ah, when the WSJ still had those double-jointed sub-titles! It seems like only ... two weeks ago.
Key bit: "Frequent and disruptive power outages plague about 35 of sub-Saharan Africa's 53 countries"
If I got that level of service, I'd chase away the electricity bill collectors with machetes too!
The real problem? Lack of solid service puts a major constraint on growing economies there.
Sounds like a job for . . . Development-in-a-Box™!
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