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[from amaah] Route of Evil

Hyperbole for sure but founded on the rise of Guinea-Bissau as a major staging point for the drug trade from Columbia and Venezuela to Europe. The effects are what one can expect: a hollowed state, narco-corruption, addicts

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[from amaah] Ghana reflects progress in Africa

7 years of quiet seem to be helping things... rebranding the country... a reasonable country profile highlighting some entrepreneurial successes.

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[from amaah] The Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana

wax printing in Africa began on the Gold Coast, where Indonesian batiks were being imported from the mid-19th century. In 1893, a Scottish traderintroduced the batik-inspired wax prints produced in Holland to the Dutch Indies. spread over West Africa into

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[from amaah] Senegal: Finding Opportunities Through Cheap Chinese Goods

The organization is lobbying the Senegalese government to obtain "reciprocity" from China. In short,they want Senegalese traders to be able to open shops, settle and do business in China as easily as their Chinese counterparts do in Senegal.

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[from amaah] China's Trade in Africa Carries a Price Tag

China pledged $20 billion to finance trade and infrastructure across the continent over the next three years. In Zambia alone, China plans to invest $800 million in the next few years. From South Africa's manganese mines to Niger's uranium pits, from

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[from amaah] Drug mules (mp3)

She was smuggling to Europe, the USA and you know, we easily beat customs because when we go there, we were well dressed, you know, our papers and everything is genuine, there is nothing fake, we have genuine passport, genuine everything that we do.

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[from amaah] The Chinese footprint growing across Africa

With their customary speed and unfussiness, the Chinese have made themselves at home in Africa, and given that things are just getting started, the Chinese footprint, already impressive, is likely to grow and grow. Indeed, Chinese airlines are starting di

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[from amaah] In Ghana, a different kind of 'casual Friday'

old article on attempts to revive African textiles in the face of the rise of second-hand clothing imported from abroad... revisit bend-down markets piece... China connection

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[from amaah] How African cocoa-growers are moving upstream into chocolate

Divine Chocolate, founded in Britain in 1998, counts cocoa farmers as its biggest group of shareholders. Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana's largest co-operative, 45,000 cocoa growers, owns 45% of Divine and has two seats on its board.

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[from amaah] Mobile phones in Africa | Buy, cell, hold

TradeNet will unveil a simple sort of eBay for agricultural products across a dozen countries in west Africa. It lets buyers and sellers indicate what they are after and their contact information sent to all relevant subscribers as an SMS text message in one of four languages.

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