[quote=Dinh AaronMk]
The thing about African islands is they're already inhabited and claimed. There wouldn't be anything that wasn't there before or undiscovered. We're talking about the crown jewel in European Imperialism in the post-Exploration age. If it's there, it would have been exploited. The only "empty" place left are the darker hearts of Africa, which present logistical challenges all their own that'd make such a research center as hard to maintain as Rapture.Even République des Seychelles - the largest island chain nation in Africa on the Eastern side - would most likely be using all its islands at this point, considering climate change and rising sea-levels compounding the issue of concentrating populations on higher islands.You'd probably end up being more succesful having Rapture than anything to research anti-matter that'll maintain a healthy energy-size ratio.
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Not to mention the fact that the particle accelerators themselves would take up huge amounts of space, be extremely expensive to build, take a long time to build, and suck in ludicrous amounts of energy. There's also the fact that a lot of nations are not going to be happy about APRICA trying to make antimatter, and, at the very least, such would make them a prime target of intelligence agencies that aren't interested in paying for the research. That much energy being used and created is going to be VERY visible to any well-equipped government or corporation, both visually (the buildings) and non-visibly; detection equipment is going to go crazy with that much energy in one place.