VICE had did a show called 'Africa's cowboy capitalists' which highlighted how hard it is to move things (vehicles for the UN in this case) across Africa due to poor roads and corruption. An airship would have saved them a lot of trouble.
This is what you were referring to right?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HbvjE5OQ
Would be some serious road rash if things went wrong on that thing!
He gave this talk in front of a bunch of VCs and LPs, it was really funny. Worlds colliding. So he's up there at the start of the talk, looks over the people there and says 'we probably won't get along well'.