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[Cronos]

The logic from the point of view of Mozambique AND for Rwanda was/is the same

Mozambique is bordered on the north and south by Commonwealth countries --> Rwanda on the north, east and somewhat to the south

they are deeply integrated in the growing East Africa community

The commonwealth is wealthier than the Francophone organization (and there isn't a Portuguese organization. For Rwanda, as a country who wanted to position themselves as a business hub in Africa, for tourism, banking, and technology, favoring English made more sense.

Also the commonwealth encourages democracy among its members - not perfectly, but has better results than for non-members

What's in it for the commonwealth? Overall - nothing.

For East African members it just smoothens the move for the East Africa community

Keep an eye out for Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana over the next 20 years -- if you have money to invest, I would recommend a chunk invested in East Africa funds, they will outperform US/West European markets while not being quite frontier funds.

the bulk of the investments I would keep in India TF's - a 15% averaged growth over 15 years isn't too bad.

[kearnyirish2]

Thanks for sharing; makes sense.

In terms of investing, the stability of these areas is too sketchy; I know a lot of Western aid pours in, but when the sh!t hits the fan, no Western governments will send troops (as evidenced in Rwanda and the Congo). The borders of the whole region need to be redrawn; when they aren’t the various tribes do it themselves with force.

[Cronos]

it depends on which country — Botswana is a stable nation state with basically one tribe - the Tswana. Even the whites are adopted into the Tswana tribe officially.

Rwanda is doing well as is Kenya. If they set up an East Africa union that would take off the pressures of the various tribal entities.

West Africa is a different kettle of fish