European commercial trawlers are encroaching on west African fishing grounds, challenging governments to improve their natural-resource governance George Francis, 63, is a rugged fisherman and harbour master of Lumley...
Dr Alain Tschudin
Book Review: Informal economies
Kasinomics: African Informal Economies and the People Who Inhabit Them. By GG Alcock, Tracey MacDonald Publishers, 178 pages The traditional medicine market in South Africa is worth R2.9 billion a year, and serves...
Working the streets of New York
African traders bring generations of élan and experience to a precarious business in the Big Apple African cities are often thought of as embodying an urbanism of fluidity and instability—cities of perpetually...
Informal transport versus the state
Informal transport operators in the Sierra Leone capital face levies, bans, fines and government disregard Ibrahim Shaw has driven a taxi in Freetown for 16 years. The constant sound of his horn as he weaves in and out...
CARTOON: Informal economies
Tumult in Tunis
Tunisian police have been cracking down on informal traders. In December 17, 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor aged 26, set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, in the centre of Tunisia. His act was a desperate protest...
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