“Africa is bigger than we think.”  Thomas Laryea, a partner at Dentons US LLP, and his fellow panelists at a recent panel sponsored by Dentons and AlixPartners described just how big it is – in terms of size, opportunity and risk.  Panelists discussed Africa-specific issues that companies doing or contemplating doing business there should know, and also presented a summary of results of a survey done by Dentons and AlixPartners, the full results of which the Anti-Corruption Report has exclusively.  The survey measured companies’ perception of the strategic importance of doing business in Africa, their understanding of African business opportunities and the corruption risks and compliance issues executives face in the region.  The survey can be interpreted to reveal the gap between the stereotypical perceptions of a monolithic continent with endemic corruption and the more nuanced reality of a diverse Africa with tremendous opportunity, if risks are carefully managed.