When it comes to analyzing what ails Africa, it is customary to dwell at length on the continent’s traumatic past. But it strains the imagination to link Africa’s colonial-era pains with the willingness of African leaders to spend a fortune to equip their countries with state-of-the-art settlement systems, and then proceed to exclude their citizens from using them.
每每谈到对非洲存在问题的分析，人们总是习惯于不厌其烦地历数这块大陆满是创伤的过去。 但是将非洲殖民时代的阵痛与非洲领导人耗费巨资为国家建设最先进的结算系统，而后又禁止本国公民对其加以利用这两者联系在一起却似乎超出了人们的想象力。