Africa: It's Time We Made Some Cash From Our Love for Meetings

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Kenyans love meetings, workshops, seminars and other ways to waste time discussing without committing to anything.

So we hold a lot of those all over the place to pass time until the next payday, to spend some of that donor money, to make it look like we're working, or for no reason at all. So you would think that we would be the best at taking that quirk, blowing it up and then putting together monstrous meetings. As it turns out, South Africa hosts more professional association meetings in the continent than any other country.

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