Africa’s Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Bruce Whitehouse Generations of Africans have debated the merits of foreign-controlled enterprise: do these businesses and the people who run them strengthen or undermine local economic opportunity? Do they benefit or exploit local workers and consumers? Such debates often overlook that a large portion of these foreign-owned firms are small or medium enterprises, and that their owners are […]
Time for Africa in Brazil?
It’s a good thing Pelé hasn’t predicted an African nation doing well in this year’s World Cup, which starts on June 12 in his homeland. The Brazilian legend’s predictions have had less accuracy than a drunkard’s piss. Among his wayward predictions was his declaration that an African nation would win the World Cup by […]
Road to Nowhere
Eleanor Whitehead The Trans-African Highway, a road network linking Africa’s major cities, is far from complete, 43 years on Driving from Cape Town to Cairo has long held a romantic allure for many adventurers. What about travelling from Dakar on Senegal’s Atlantic Ocean coast to Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden, or […]