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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAFRICA’S COWBOY CAPITALISTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries’ embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Photographer and filmmaker Tim Freccia followed around Ian and the guys he hired for this job. “Cowboy Capitalists” documents their attempts to navigate the continent’s dangerous roads and bureaucratic chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Watch our other documentary about truckers in Africa, West African Truckers:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out the Best of VICE here:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out our full video catalog:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Videos, daily editorial and more:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vice.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vice.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Like VICE on Facebook:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/fb.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Follow VICE on Twitter:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Read our tumblr:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AFRICA’S COWBOY CAPITALISTS For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176424309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176424336,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions\/176424336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176424309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176424309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176424309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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AFRICA’S COWBOY CAPITALISTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries’ embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Photographer and filmmaker Tim Freccia followed around Ian and the guys he hired for this job. “Cowboy Capitalists” documents their attempts to navigate the continent’s dangerous roads and bureaucratic chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Watch our other documentary about truckers in Africa, West African Truckers:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out the Best of VICE here:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out our full video catalog:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Videos, daily editorial and more:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vice.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vice.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Like VICE on Facebook:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/fb.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Follow VICE on Twitter:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Read our tumblr:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AFRICA’S COWBOY CAPITALISTS For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176424309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176424336,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions\/176424336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176424309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176424309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176424309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries’ embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Photographer and filmmaker Tim Freccia followed around Ian and the guys he hired for this job. “Cowboy Capitalists” documents their attempts to navigate the continent’s dangerous roads and bureaucratic chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Watch our other documentary about truckers in Africa, West African Truckers:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/West-African-Truckers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out the Best of VICE here:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Best-Of<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Check out our full video catalog:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VICE-Videos<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Videos, daily editorial and more:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vice.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vice.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Like VICE on Facebook:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/fb.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Follow VICE on Twitter:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/vice<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Read our tumblr:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/vicemag.tumblr.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AFRICA’S COWBOY CAPITALISTS For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176424309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176424336,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176424309\/revisions\/176424336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176424309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176424309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176424309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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