{"id":2403,"date":"2007-11-29T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2007\/11\/29\/sourcing-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:53:55","slug":"sourcing-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/sourcing-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason over at Spend Matters yesterday posted a thought-provoking blurb entitled \u201cAfrica is Not the New Asia (When it Comes to Global Sourcing).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Jason that Africa is not going to be a global sourcing hot spot in the immediate future. Some of these reasons I\u2019ve already addressed in the comments to an earlier post of mine.<\/p>\n<p>But another issue is the electricity crisis in Africa that not even Jason\u2019s astute commenters have addressed to this point. I\u2019ve heard quite a bit about the electricity situation there from our students as well as one of Next Level Purchasing\u2019s employees, whose brother was recently in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to this article on Yahoo! News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fewer than 25 percent of Africans have access to electricity<\/li>\n<li>In Nigeria, the energy demands are nearly twice what the country\u2019s creaking power plants can produce<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient power is one of the continent\u2019s biggest obstacles to development and a big turnoff for foreign investors<\/li>\n<li>Building enough hydropower dams to meet the need would take decades<\/li>\n<li>Power cuts are quite common and even colder temperatures that cause people to use electric heaters can exacerbate the power cuts significantly<\/li>\n<li>There doesn\u2019t seem to be any one interested in investing in building more power plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And who knows if suppliers in Africa use lead paint\u2026LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason over at Spend Matters yesterday posted a thought-provoking blurb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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