Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Africa Investment Horizons

Africa Investment Horizons, Carol Pineau's latest film which premiered today at the NYSE "...is about money, and lots of it. Investors – one after another – talk about astounding returns, doubling their money, even tripling. But at its heart, the film is the story of people working to create a new economic future for Africa, from two ivy-league educated Ghanaians who left top jobs on Wall Street to go back to Ghana and create the first mutual fund to the Governor of the Bank of Botswana, whose prudent management of her country’s vast diamond income has not only resulted in one of the highest per capital savings rates in the world, but also allowed the country to offer free education to all and anti-retrovirals to anyone with HIV/AIDS. These are people who understand that alleviating poverty is not enough. They know the only proven path to sustainable development is creating wealth..."
Watch 7 min preview here & 2 min preview here

2 comments:

Joshua Wanyama said...

This is a great ways to showcase what Africa has to offer. I had seen the preview before and I think Carol has found a great way to change the message of African opportunities.

The African Millonaire said...

We need stuff like this to be featured on CNBC, CNN