http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/09/london-2012-africa-village-close

It was supposed to be the world's window on Africa during London 2012, the first time that the continent's national Olympic committees (NOCs) had joined to set up a hospitality house to showcase their culture and attract tourists, locals and even the occasional athlete.

Since Wednesday morning, however, Africa Village in Kensington Gardens, a collection of around 20 stands each representing a country, has been shut to visitors and plunged into acrimony.

The village's French organisers and British suppliers are understood to have been locked in a stand-off over the non-payment of bills believed to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Even trying to sell the continent to investors, African governments fail to oversee the simplest tasks.

Get your facts right Ki-Katanga before you start condemning your own people. I live in London and I was outside the African Village on the day it was forced to close. Its demise was purely down to the French contractors and British sub-contractors and nothing to do with the African exhibitors all all, a majority of whom combined, had paid close to a £1 million. The questions you should be asking is What are our African Governments going to do about it? and, Would this had happened if the Village had been European or American?

Naijatunj: Get your facts right Ki-Katanga before you start condemning your own people. I live in London and I was outside the African Village on the day it was forced to close. Its demise was purely down to the French contractors and British sub-contractors and nothing to do with the African exhibitors all all, a majority of whom combined, had paid close to a £1 million. The questions you should be asking is What are our African Governments going to do about it? and, Would this had happened if the Village had been European or American?

That's exactly what it says in the quote I posted!

But if I spend money, I spend it with the people who'll do the best job. That money was badly spent and badly managed by the French, but the African Olympic Committees handed over £2.4 million to them and got nothing but shame for it.

For £2.4 million there was no-one who could make sure it went off without too many problems?

If it had been European or American, I wouldn't care because it wouldn't be my people looking the fool, yet again.

If we do not know how we are failing we cannot improve.

Ki-Katanga:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/09/london-2012-africa-village-close



Even trying to sell the continent to investors, African governments fail to oversee the simplest tasks.

Wean they say french and british are they talking of french and english colonized africans or the colo/slave masters themselves?

Africans are like sucklings when it comes to dealing with fundamental issues. The socalled IOC african branch is just a puppet body used by oyinbo to include africans for the sake of formalities and siphoning resources. Like AU.

redsun:

Wean they say french and british are they talking of french and english colonized africans or the colo/slave masters themselves?

Africans are like sucklings when it comes to dealing with fundamental issues. The socalled IOC african branch is just a puppet body used by oyinbo to include africans for the sake of formalities and siphoning resources. Like AU.

Presumably the French from France and the British from Britain. i.e. mostly not Africans.

Naijatunj: Get your facts right Ki-Katanga before you start condemning your own people. I live in London and I was outside the African Village on the day it was forced to close. Its demise was purely down to the French contractors and British sub-contractors and nothing to do with the African exhibitors all all, a majority of whom combined, had paid close to a £1 million. The questions you should be asking is What are our African Governments going to do about it? and, Would this had happened if the Village had been European or American?

Or you could ask if the African organizers made sure to do a thorough background check on the organization in question before decided to have it handle this project. I mean it is a big blow.