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Page 1: Dollars and Danger: Africa, the Final Investing Frontier

School children at a school on the Tenke Fungurume Mining Commission in DRC http://africa.cnbc.com

Page 2: Dollars and Danger: Africa, the Final Investing Frontier

Erin Burnett interviews Rotimi Oyekan, Commissioner of Finance, Lagos, Nigeria <a http://africa.cnbc.com

Page 3: Dollars and Danger: Africa, the Final Investing Frontier

Dambisa Moyo grew up in Zambia and studies at Harvard and Oxford. After a career that included 8 years at Goldman Sachs she wrote the bestseller “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working &amp; How There is Another Way for Africa.”

The book earned her a spot on the Time’s list of the World’s 100 Most Influential People.Moyo: “Fundamentally the problem with the aid model is that it is not creating jobs across the African continent.”

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Obinna Ekezie grew up in Nigeria and attended college in America, playing basketball for the University of Maryland and the NBA.

He gave it all up to come home to Lagos. Now, he’s using his own money to launch Zeep, the first online travel company focused on the African travel market. He hopes it will be Nigeria’s Orbitz.

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