Just some weekend reading material.

Ethiopia is definitely catching up on a global scale.

http://www.atkearney.com/latest-article/-/asset_publisher/lON5IOfbQl6C/content/global-cities-present-and-future-gci-2014/10192

Moving to Africa, Addis Ababa is the third most likely city to advance its global positioning. While its absolute numbers in the area of innovation are quite low, it improved its performance on the leading innovation indicators by a very large percentage between 2008 and 2013. At current rates of improvement, the Ethiopian capital is also among the cities closing in fastest on the world leaders—despite current distances—in income equality, healthcare, and business transparency. The next sub-Saharan city on the ECO is Nairobi, in ninth place, where IBM is already building a research laboratory.