It is too easy to see Africa as little more than an amalgam of hut-burning janja-weed militias, emaciated children and "big men" in aviator shades. Africa's civil wars, sham elections and political shenanigans certainly demand attention, so the remoter parts of Darfur, Ethiopia, the Niger Delta or Zimbabwe tend to be where Western reporters end up, often after dangerous journeys in elderly planes and bumpy jeeps. The view was different when your correspondent was whisked around six rather more salubrious countries in five days in a Gulfstream 5 executive jet carrying a clutch of managers and investors with Lonrho, a London-based company with a controversial history in Africa.
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