One of the consequences of this lack of cooperation for Africa’s 967 million people is the bureaucratic replication and currency-exchange issues that being divided into 53 countries entails. China, with 1.3 billion people, is just one country; and the European Union, with some 500 million people, functions as a single economic market, with most of its members sharing a single currency.
对 9 亿 6 千 7 百万非洲民众来说，缺乏合作的后果之一是官僚机构重叠，货币兑换问题成为 53 个国家的共同包袱。拥有 13 亿人的中国是一个统一的国家，而人口 5 亿左右的欧盟也形成了统一的经济市场，其中多数成员国使用共同的货币参与流通。如果非洲形形色色的小国无法团结在一起，它们或许永远也无法与世界经济实现有效的融合，因此也无法从我们全球化的世界中收获好处。