NEW YORK – Zimbabwe’s election appears, once again, to confirm a truism: Africa only seems to make international headlines when disasters strike – a drought, a coup, a war, a genocide, or, as in the case of Robert Mugabe, grossly incompetent government. But, over the past several years, a number of sub-Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital.
津巴布韦的选举好像再一次验证了这一真理，也就是非洲好像只有在干旱、政变、战争或者种族屠杀等灾害来临的时候才会成为国际头条新闻。但是在过去几年时间里，几个萨哈拉沙漠以南国家吸引了前所未有的外国资本。最近的全球金融风暴也只是增加了非洲的吸引力，因为与人们更为熟悉的大多数新兴市场相比，非洲前沿市场并不如此受国际市场的风吹草动影响。