The Africa Report — July-August 2017

06 EDITORIALAfrica’s Marshall

Plan for the West

08 LETTERS

10 THE QUESTION

BRIEFING

12 SIGNPOSTS

14 PEOPLE

16 INTERNATIONAL

18 CALENDAR

20 OPINION

Cheta Nwanze, head of

research, SBM Intelligence,

Nigeria

FRONTLINE

22 DIASPORA

Adynamicforceforgood

TheAfricaReporttakes

a look at the diaspora population

around the globe and

how they are changing the

continent’s narrative from abroad

POLITICS

30 KENYA

The fight of a lifetime

Raila’s last chance, and

the threat of election violence

ahead of the August polls

36 PROFILE

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma,

former chair, African Union

Commission

40 NIGERIA

Aseasonofallthedangers

42 ANANSI

Are Europe’s voters

growing up?

COUNTRY FOCUS

45 CAMEROON

Bamenda blues

After years of neglect and

marginalisation by the country’s

francophone majority, the

English-speaking enclaves

are pushing back

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BUSINESS

60 GOOGLE

The next billion

The American tech giant is using

training programmes to reel

in new African internauts

64 TELECOMS

The curious fall of Etisalat

Nigeria

66 OIL AND GAS

Senegal’s black bonanza

70 LEADERS

NanaAma Botchway-

Dowuona, Founder, N.

Dowuona & Company, Ghana

72 FINANCE

There’s gold in that dirt

73 HANNIBAL

LOGISTICS DOSSIER

74 Transnet in a tangle

Allegations of corruption surface

as the state-run company

targets a continental expansion

78 INTERVIEW

Romain Py, Investment

director, African

Infrastructure Investment

Managers (AIIM)

80 EAST AFRICA

Ports in a storm

ART&LIFE

82 CULTURE

Has Egypt lost its capital?

The once entertainment centre

of the Arab world attempts

a comeback

86 ART

Nigeria makes its Venice

Biennale debut appearance

88 LIFESTYLE

Ghanaian designer

Akosua Afriyie-Kumi

89 TRAVEL

Madagascan islands

by catamaran

90 DAYINTHELIFE

Zanzibar hotel

operations manager

Mohamad Ali Mohamad

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