The business of Africa

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The Investment Climate Facility for Africa works to get private investment into Africa and advise African states on how to become more friendly to private enterprise. The co-Chair of the Facility, former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, is optimistic but says there are still huge barriers to private investment. One private business that's booming is mobile telephony - we report on the scramble for subscriptions in Kenya. And if you are trying make friend at work by getting the coffees the whole time, forget it. Selfless colleagues, says Professor Craig Parks of Washington State University, are even more unpopular than selfish ones.