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Contents
August/September 2008
14 Cover Story Last Chance Saloon
Editorial 11 Identify the core of your business
Cover Story Last Chance Saloon 14 Africa holds its breath 16 S African business keen to help 18 How Mugabe split the continent 20 The games hypocrites play 22 SADC- No more Mr Nice Guy
Energy 24 Can Africa calm market fears?
Commodities 26 Price boom: A blessing and a challenge
Topic 28 Chinese are now black - official
Event CBC African Business Awards 30 A Who’s Who of African Business
Special Report Telecoms Moving to the next stage 34 West - Nigeria now Africa’s biggest market 36 South - MTN’s fate in the balance 38 East - Safaricom sale a success 40 North - Libya now saturated
ISSUE 345 WWW.AFRICASIA.COM
View from the City 42 Developing capabilities and capacities in African LDCs
2010 World Cup Watch 44 S. Africa shudders at Fifa’s ‘Plan B’
Spotlight 48 Ethiopia coffee shows power of branding
Country Files 54 S. Africa: Banks under the spotlight 58 Nigeria: Liquidity glut wreaks havoc 61 Mauritius: The future is green 62 Malawi: Boom time for tobacco sales 64 Burundi: A life without fear the priority
Reviews Books/Music 70 Africa Rising 73 Rose-Innes wins Caine Prize 74 A Town called Addis
