John Hollaway lives in the DR Congo and writes books about his experience of working in over a score of African countries. He argues that Africans are unable to break out of poverty because for most their assets are still wives, children and livestock. Wealth creation by having fixed property title is an idea that has not yet taken root. We will know that it has when there are more than just the eight 'agences immobilieres' to be found in a country the size of the Congo...