The old guard seems determined to ruin the country’s political prospects. Read the full story here. Published in The Economist, 21 June 2013. Continue reading Madagascar’s elections: they just won’t give up
Arts and crafts play a large role in economies dependent on tourism. Now some governments are waking up to the need to professionalise the industry. Read the full article here. Article published in The Africa Report, April 2013. Continue reading Africa’s village crafts have big ambitions
Some 12 million Africans are thought to have been sold as slaves from Senegal to Angola over a period of 500 years. Most were destined to work in European colonies in the Americas. Today, the Ghanaian forts from which so many were shipped have become places of pilgrimage for their descendants – and for Africans too. Read the full story here. (UK residents will need … Continue reading A pilgrimage to Ghana’s slave forts
