Africa’s rising middle class – and why it matters
Quantifying the size of Africa’s middle class – a defining characteristics of the “Africa Rising” narrative – is not an easy thing to do.
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DR Congo – Trouble in the East
As the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says it will push back next month’s presidential election to April 2018, over 50 armed …
The real price of African coffee
Worth over $100 billion annually, coffee is, after oil, the second most valuable commodity on earth. Export revenues account for over one-fifth of this. And yet, never before have coffee farmers in East Africa been more impoverished. Santorri Chamley investigates.
A Borderless Africa: So you want that African e-Passport?
Excitement, praise, concern, and heaps of speculation have greeted the much-hyped launch of the common African e-passport at the Kigali African Union Summit on 17th …
Africa writes back: 10 books to look out for
Zahrah Nessbit-Ahmed, founder of the Bookshy Blog, chronicles some of the exciting happenings within the African literary scene in recent years, and gives a low down on titles to look out for.
The pitfalls of occupation thinking
We are under occupation only to the extent that we accept to be.
