wrote:

Few years later, the very same French Public Works Minister is in an
official visit to this African country and is invited for a dinner at
the private house of his old friend the African Minister.
When he reaches the place, he is totally amazed and says:
- That's not a house! It's a palace! I know about your country
finances, how could you manage that?
The African Minister laughs and tells him:
- Come to the window. You see that highway there?
- No....

I thought African's got their money thru email scams?