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Cover stor y: Keep it in the ground? Africa’s race to develop oil and gas
Business Intelligence 4 News and deals around Africa Opinion 14 The African Way: the case for
economic self-reliance 40 Africa can be the heart of South
Korea’s technolog y industr y 48 For Africa’s poorest countries,
it’s t ime for transformation
Cover story Oil & gas –
Keep it in the ground? 16 Africa’s race to develop its oil
and gas resources 22 Opinion: ‘We should quickly take
resources out of the ground and convert them to capital’ Special report: 55 Africa’s Top 250 companies 56 Africa’s listings show some
growth against a still-difficult economic backdrop 62 The Top 250 68 North Africa strides ahead 71 West Africa holds steady 72 Hope with limits in East Africa 73 South Africa still struggles 74 Solid strength in Southern Africa Features 24 US manufacturing subsidies for
Africa could help revive AGOA 26 The race to succeed Adesina at
the AfDB hots up
34 Inter view: ‘It is definitely a
long-term call’ Central Bank of Nigeria governor Olayemi Michael Cardoso on the Bank’s policy decisions impacting millions of people 42 China’s low-cost e-commerce
giant heads to Africa 44 The Japanese private sector
gains ground in Africa but caution still reigns 46 Inter view: how to move from
debt burden to economic resilience, asks Mavis OwusuGyamfi of the African Center for Economic Transformation 84 Cocoa prices hit records as West
African yields decline 86 The Venice Art Biennale features
more African artists than ever Special report: Kenya 76 Expectations are high as Kenya’s
stock market turns bullish 79 Is Safaricom’s M-Pesa ready and
able to go it alone? 82 Kenya Airways propelled by its
first operating profit in years Review 88 From nuclear missiles to
artificial intelligence: a history of the computer chip Editor’s View 90 After Sudan’s devastating year of
war, stop supplying arms
