Herman Chinery-Hesse has a story to tell. He expected to start a manufacturing business back home in Ghana after school in Texas, but lacked the funds for it. So he started a software business on his computer, sitting in his bedroom, and it grew.
He's had to deal with what he considers unfair foreign competition: a European company wanted a contract that would have gone to his company, "Soft Tribe." They asked for help from their home government - which "bribed" Ghana with aid to hire the European company to do the job.
He says, "That's not assistance. That's thuggery." Ghana's government decided that free money is hard to turn down, so "Soft Tribe" lost the bid, lost the contract, and had to lay off employees.
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