No other tycoon in Africa has the balance-sheet to fund such wide-ranging projects. But whether it is best for the continent to have a single Ambani or Rockefeller, rather than a panoply of competing moguls, is far from clear

No other tycoon in Africa has the balance-sheet to fund such wide-ranging projects. But whether it is best for the continent to have a single Ambani or Rockefeller, rather than a panoply of competing moguls, is far from clear