Oil and Africa: Rethinking the "Resource Curse" + Christo & Jeanne-Claude

OIL AND AFRICA: RETHINKING THE "RESOURCE CURSE" : It's a continuing paradox: the same countries blessed with natural reserves of oil, timber and diamonds often have the most human inequality and government dysfunction. Challenging this "resource curse" is difficult, and creative partnerships with plans for positively distributing wealth often meet mixed results. Kojo looks at what's working and what's not in Sub-Saharan Africa. (23 min.) CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE: Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been creating grand-scale installations as public works of art for more than 40 years. Known most recently for The Gates in New York's Central Park, the artists join Kojo to discuss their careers, and their two new projects - one in America, suspending almost 6 miles of silvery fabric over a river in Colorado; the other in the United Arab Emirates involving over 400,000 colorfully-painted steel oil barrels. (26 min.)