The Economist, a UK based global newspaper, has become a unique and leading voice in shaping contemporaryeconomic discourses of Africa. In 2000,the newspaper described Africa as “the Hopeless Continent”. In 2011, it had “Africa Rising” as its cover theme. And on April 16th 2016 it published
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