Articles from African Business (June 1, 2006)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
... but tobacco needs financing.		Brief article	155
A Life Elsewhere.		Book review	231
A Month and a Day and Letters.		Book review	355
AB guide to African currencies.		Table	503
Africa from all angles: the theme for this year's World Economic Forum on Africa (Cape Town, May 31-June 2) is going for growth. A host of African heads of state and ministers will join business leaders to examine and analyse Africa's current status and its future needs. Report by African business editor, Anver Versi.	Versi, Anver	Editorial	2785
Africa is in Style.		Book review	131
Africa maintains its high GDP-growth record.		Brief article	155
Africa needs new models: the role of indigenous languages.	Dugbazah, Mawuetornam	Letter to the editor	216
Africa's management condumdrum: confused about branding.		Letter to the editor	509
African ports and harbours Africa's gateway to world trade.	Ford, Neil		10563
Battling bigotry: striving for an inclusive society.		Book review	1666
Black consumer power.	Versi, Anver	Editorial	914
Cash not food aid: how the US can help.	Magwa, Ray	Letter to the editor	310
Economy takes a turn for the worse: Zimbabwe's economic decline is being exacerbated by the devastating HIV/Aids pandemic that is sweeping the southern Africa region. Neil Ford reports.	Ford, Neil		1531
Gas brightens power outlook: Botswana could soon join the ranks of Africa's gas producers, although its gas takes a different form to that from most other countries in the sub-region in that it comprises coal bed methane gas. The long-term economic implications, writes Neil Ford, could be immense.	Ford, Neil		1404
Headache of Africa's biggest head count: just how big is Nigeria's population? Is it 100m or 150m or somewhere in between? No one is sure because Nigeria has never really had an accurate, all-inclusive census and demographic numbers are politically and economically very sensitive. Now the country awaits the results of the first census in 15 years. Neil Ford reports.	Ford, Neil		1465
Holding the door open for investors: the island state of Seychelles has been too dependent on the fickle tourism industry for a long time and it is now seeking ways of diversifying the economy. Recent changes in legislation will make the islands more investor-friendly. Neil Ford reports.	Ford, Neil		1447
How free is your economy? The Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) published annually by the US-based Heritage Foundation and the World Street Journal ranks countries in terms of how free from state interventions their economies are. Africa has been doing better than most over the past five years.	Siddiqi, Moin		1593
Human resources riddle.	Williams, Frances	Letter to the editor	162
Justice On The Grass.		Book review	255
Learning from history: insist on full value for our resources.	Tembo, Novan	Letter to the editor	395
Price bonanza for Zim maize farmers ...		Brief article	114
Prize letter: win a free annual subscription!			98
Renewable Energy Policy and Politics: A Guide for Decision-Making.		Book review	324
SA goes for nuclear power.		Brief article	119
Sangomas step out of the shadows: despite South Africa's determination to place traditional healing on a par with modern medicine, a new law has set alarm bells ringing in industry. Tom Nevin has the details.	Nevin, Tom		1591
Searching for African Prospects: Life as a Mining Engineer in Nigeria and Angola.		Book review	200
South Africa's royalty: long live the Queens!		Sound recording review	687
Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to it.		Book review	317
Steady progress in meeting the MDGs.		Brief article	104
The rewards of peace.		Brief article	97
Vic Falls heritage status in danger.		Brief article	122
Where does all the oil money go? With rising production and high prices, billions of dollars of additional income are being made in oil-producing African countries. But how much do African governments actually benefit from such a boom and how much of the money is invested in projects that benefit their citizens?	Ford, Neil		1501
Worker's poverty growing: ILO report published.	Berhane, Guebray	Letter to the editor	258
Worries over widening income gap: Tanzania is among a handful of African countries that has remained politically stable, despite undergoing a long period of economic stagnation. Growth has been good recently but the income gap has also been growing, leading to a spate of criminality. Neil Ford reports.	Ford, Neil		1419
Write-offs in force at last.		Brief article	134