创新者和商界领袖正在推动整个非洲大陆的进步，但“可见度鸿沟”让世界其他地方无法真正看到这一点三十年前，南非刚摆脱种族隔离制度不久，我离开伦敦前往约翰内斯堡，寻求更好的生活。不久之后，一位正准备从英国来访的朋友打来电话，问了一个耐人寻味的问题：南非有自动取款机吗？
Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent-wide, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents the rest of the world from truly seeing it Thirty years ago, shortly after South Africa emerged from apartheid, I left London for Johannesburg in search of a better life. Not long afterwards, a friend who was preparing to visit from the UK called with an intriguing question: do they have ATMs in South Africa?
我从震惊中缓过神来后解释说，南非不仅有自动取款机，而且在许多方面，其银行系统远比我在英国留下的那套系统先进。她很惊讶，而且——恕我直言——也很高兴，因为她终究不必在南非随身携带一大沓现金了。
After I picked myself off the floor, I explained that not only did South Africa have ATMs, but in many respects its banking system was far more advanced than the one I had left behind in Britain. She was surprised and – dare I say – delighted that she wouldn’t have to lug a wad of cash around South Africa after all.