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January 2018 ISSUE N° 448 WWW.ICPUBLICATIONS.COM
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12 COVER STORY DEAL OR NO DEAL: HOW AFRICAN M&A HAS WEATHERED THE DOWNTURN
BRIEFS 4 News from around Africa
COVER STORY 12 Deal or no Deal: How African M&A has weathered the downturn
INTERVIEW 18 Sri Venkataramani,
CEO, Africa and Middle East, Olam
TRAVEL AND TOURISM 22 Airbnb in Africa
AFRICA 2017 FORUM 26 Africa 2017 Forum sets strong development agenda 29 The power of stories
FOCUS ON CAMEROON 30 The way forward for Cameroon
OUTLOOK FOR 2018 34 South Africa after Zuma 38 Kenya’s economy shows resilience 44 Nigeria looks to 2019 elections
TUTU FELLOWS LEADERSHIP COLUMN 42 The CFTA and industrialisation
INTERVIEWS 48 Andrus Ansip, EU vice-president for Digital Single Market 52 Li Yong, director general, UNIDO
PERSPECTIVE 56 Seeking a solution to a deadly health problem
COUNTRYFILES 59 Will Zimbabwe’s reforms go far enough? 63 Angola: A new trajectory?
LAST WORD 66 A tough but encouraging year for democracy
