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Togo is back on track

“It will be long and maybe boring for you if I should go through what we have achieved in the past five years, but I think Togo is back on track. The image and perception of the country from the outside is completely changed,” President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé of Togo tells New African’s editor Baffour Ankomah. More...

Mandela, 20 years on Change, but for whom?

There has been change in South Africa, 20 years after Mandela’s release from prison on 11 February 1990 Apartheid is no more. Millions of South Africans get their basic water needs satisfied for free. The number of households with electricity has shot up from 50% to 80%. The banking system has expanded to embrace the black underclass. There is an expanding black middle class. However, most of these improvements are cosmetic! The wealth that is created is not circulating among the black majority. Shared poverty and debt is! Thus, 20 years after Mandela’s release, South Africa has become the world champion of inequalities, overtaking Brazil. Yes, there is change, but for whom? More...

Remembering the dismembered continent (2)

Ayi Kwei Armah completes his article on the “Berlin consensus”, by looking at what Africans can do to move the continent forward. The first part was published in the last issue. More...

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COVER STORIES
South Africa: Change, but for whom?
Togo is back on track
Africa: Remembering the dismembered continent (2)

REFLECTIONS
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FEATURES
Zimbabwe: No imminent elections
Ghana: Rawlings, latest victim of fire outbreaks
Kenya: Scramble for economic opportunities
East Africa: First astronaut ready to fly
Nigeria: A problematic solution
Comesa unleashing Africa’s potential

AFRICAN FOOTBALL
Editor’s note
A tragedy in Angola
Star interview: South Africa’s
Steven Pienaar
Nigeria’s dance with disaster
South African coach Parreira speaks
Blunt but fair: Quit Hayatou, quit

AVIATION SPECIAL
Take off for kick-off

RIGHT OF REPLY
No apologies, says ex-President Kufuor

LETTER FROM LAGOS
Not waving but drowning

LEST WE FORGET
Africa’s humanitarian aid workers

FOCUS ON GHANA
A tourist haven
Bright economic prospects
Oil production on course
Ghana’s cocoa still top

SPECIAL FEATURE
Sierra Leone: Rough justice?

NEEM TREE
The joys of African storytelling

DIASPORA
Italy: African immigrants’worst nightmare?

THE ARTS
Britain: The king’s horseman
USA: Oscar calling
Congo/USA: Telling stories through dance

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