With regional GDP growth at 5.5% and the world’s fastest-growing middle class, Africa has been receiving a lot of good press. Can the momentum continue? Or, asks Terence McNamee of South Africa’s Brenhurst Foundation, will 2014 see a “backlash to the Africa rising narrative”? China has played a big role in African growth story; which economies can handle a downturn in Chinese demand? Democracy has spread, but how many states have created a sense of nationhood? Problems are emerging in terms of state formation; are old fault lines reemerging? Is widespread youth unemployment a ticking time bo
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