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...
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by Kolawole Talabi and Arthur Debruyne | Feb 12, 2018
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...
by Pierre Heistein | Oct 12, 2017
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...
by Ryan Devlin | Oct 12, 2017
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...
by Jamie Hitchen | Oct 1, 2017
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...
by Victor Ndula | Oct 1, 2017
by Perrine Massy | Oct 1, 2017
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...