Helping Africa

A local paper ran an interesting column on the subject. Money quote: "The African Union estimated that corruption costs the continent $148 billion each year, enough money to wipe out the debt in just more than two years." I found a citation for that here. If only there were a simple way to eliminate corruption. More democracy might be one answer; Freedom House's Map of Freedom show's Africa pretty clearly to be one of the less free regions of the world.