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Guinness adverts show how African men’s search for validation can enrich western corporations.
Coverage is celebratory and offers limited cautionary and critical reporting to the public and to policymakers.
Asia’s much touted low-cost, export-oriented manufacturing model increases gender discrimination.
Surveys shows that the majority of Africans prefer democracy, despite its flaws, to the alternatives.
The transformation of the EU-Africa summit series into the EU-AU summit is more than just a change of name. It reflects the increasing recognition of the AU as an international actor.
The problem with Africa’s model of industrial growth is that it privileges the formal at the expense of the informal and big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative was disturbed in 2016 by a combination of factors. But the continent is still on firm economic development footing.
Africa has been called a “consumer continent” by many, but in reality much of what its people consume is produced elsewhere. Technology is key to Africa becoming a self-reliant producer of goods.
Grassroots protesters are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity pushed through the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. They want policies that meet their basic needs.
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria
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EM Fellow, Université de Montpellier
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Professor: International Business & Strategy, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Postgraduate researcher, University of Leeds
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Professor of Global Communication, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of International Development, Dublin City University
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Associate Professor of Global Political Economy and Development, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Sociology, School of International Service, American University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen