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Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy

Deviate

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I Don't See Africa Benefiting From This, but I'm an Old Man

I've been involved in Africa for 60 years, almost 59 years. So this has been on my mind all that time. I mean, how do you help people? Some people say revolution. That's a very tempting thing. But as it works and that well, and how the place and after with it over from the government. You need people to be inspired. And I think investment is one of the ways of doing it. Even when it doesn't seem like it's going to benefit the investor that much. Still, might make Nike's in Vietnam. Yet he makes any Nike product made in the United States. Why? Because they'd be a bit more expensive or have to charge

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