Why was Africa off Olympics pace?

Two weeks ago I visited the Africa Village at London's Kensington Gardens, to appear on a radio show being broadcast from there. After the interview, I lingered, wandering around the national stands, savoring the Nigerian hip-hop that blared from the speakers. I stood in line to receive an inscription -- carefully traced out on paper by a cheerful, elderly man wielding a quill pen -- of my name in English and Arabic.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/13/opinion/olympics-african-village/index.html?eref=edition

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