What this ‘Africa rising’ narrative overlooked was that what was really rising was global commodity prices fueled by China’s seemingly limitless In the recent past, such meetings have been dominated by the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. At the time when I first read this article, I recognised it for what it plainly was — a joke. And so if any of the tribes wanted to secede, they should be free to do so. It’s from one of the earlier works of VS Naipaul, long before he won his Nobel Prize in literature.

Source: The Star July 07, 2016 02:07 UTC