During his annual whirlwind tour of Clinton Foundation humanitarian projects in Africa, which ended Monday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton sat down with National Geographic News's David Braun in Kigali, Rwanda, for a conversation on how African leaders can unite to fight the energy, climate, and food crises and how the continent is so much more than the disasters that often define it in the media. (Hear the full interview.) Africa is perhaps more vulnerable than other continents to the food, energy, and climate crises. But can Africa also provide part of the global solution to these problems? David Braun's NatGeo News Watch Blog Bill Clinton Announces AIDS, Malaria Initiatives (August 4, 2008) I am trying to work on all three of them. And I am trying to convince Africa that the energy crisis and climate change and Africa's capacity to develop its economy through agriculture and to improve the health of their people through nutrition should be pursued in tandem. Africans should realize that they might actually be able to skip a stage of development. They don't have to go through the carbon-intensive phase. They can't afford it, unless they have their own oil resources. A lot of the modeling that's been done about bad things that are going to happen as a result of global warming shows that the biggest consequences in the early phases