Articles from African Business (April 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Africa should not take it on the chin.	Versi, Anver		774
Africa's top 200 companies.		Company rankings	3301
Africa's top companies 2009: plus annual regional rankings.	Versi, Anver		351
Africa--Gulf the fit is perfect: this is a condensed version of African Business editor Anver Versi's speech at the NYU Africa--Arab Gulf relationships conference.		Conference news	847
African currency slide may not be a bad thing; The fallout from the global economic crisis takes all sorts of forms and shapes. Although Africa has been spared the worst of the financial meltdown trauma, its currencies have been sliding against the dollar. In some ways, this enforced depreciation may benefit Africa by boosting exports and reducing imports.	Siddiqi, Moin		1369
African oil and gas 2009 review.	Ford, Neil		1338
Africans seek UK government funding.		Brief article	119
Algeria gears up gas supply to Europe.			687
All that glisters is gold: in a world of tumbling commodity prices, gold and silver still hold their own as speculators shed currencies for the solidity of bullion. Can demand for these, and other precious metals, help African producers ride out the global economic storm? M J Morgan reports.	Morgan, M.J.		1495
Botswana leads but Malawi is new star.		Survey	1378
Botswana's progress.	Ssenyonjo, Semuwemba	Letter to the editor	423
Budgeting for hard times: Ghana's 2009 budget reflects the current economic gloom hanging over the world, although the new administration led by president John Atta Mills has stuck to its campaign pledge to clean up government business and provide a million free school uniforms. Stephen Gyasi Jnr reports from Accra.	Gyasi, Stephen, Jnr		1465
Cameroon soul: Making connections.		Biography	748
Damnation for Africa's big dams? Huge, multi-billion-dollar dams are often seen as the only solution to Africa's critical shortage of power. But is this really the case? What about the massive environmental damage caused by the dams and the suffering that relocation of vast populations entails? Are dams the solution or the problem? Khadija Sharife reports.	Sharife, Khadija		2254
Driving Africa's growth: business visionaries and their stories.		Book review	1508
Hi-tech solutions for crisis management.	Engel, Dan		693
Investment: the importance of judicial reform: last month's article by Omari Issa on 'how to attract foreign investors' triggered so much reader interest that we have decided to run a series of articles by him on the critical issue of creating a favourable climate for foreign investment in Africa.	Issa, Omari		1163
Kenya plans second bond issue.		Brief article	157
Kenya tops, despite earlier turbulence.		Survey	1481
Land transfer: how to get it right: black farmers who have been resettled on formerly white-owned agricultural lands are forming unlikely but practical alliances with the former owners. The white farmers are swapping commercial-skills training for long-term leases--thus, hopefully, avoiding neighbouring Zimbabwe's dreadful land-reform fate. Tom Nevin reports.	Nevin, Tom		1529
Low valuations hide true worth of Africa's best.	Ford, Neil	Survey	2120
Mobile phone growth biggest in Africa.		Survey	184
Morocco takes over top spot from Egypt.		Survey	1392
New demand for ivory alarms Kenya.		Brief article	186
New malaria-fighting coalition.		Brief article	118
Nigeria still tops, but shares drop value.			1524
Pirates, high costs, hammer Egypt: piracy off the Somali coast, falling demand for shipping and escalating costs mean that a number of shippers are forsaking the Suez Canal short cut and going the long way round the Cape. Tom Nevin reports.	Nevin, Tom		1534
Read the fine print.		Brief article	122
Regional integration key to Africa's infrastructure development.		Brief article	153
Retail edges out mining.			1514
S Africa slips to world gold production third spot.		Brief article	212
Sector reform is overdue.		Law overview	523
South Africa postpones mining royalty payments.		Brief article	107
South Africans slow to buy tickets: the South African government is fretting over South Africans' lukewarm take-up of World Cup and this year's Confederation Cup tickets, as the financial crunch delays the rush for seats. Tom Nevin reports.	Nevin, Tom		1191
Telling it like it is, internet style: for what seems like forever, Africans have been angered by biased, stereotypical coverage of the continent in the Western media. The call has been for Africa's own BBC or Al Jazeera. But, it seems, the solution to obtaining more accurate information is already available.	Muga, Wycliffe		1421
The Aid argument.	Wilmington, Arnold	Letter to the editor	193
The consequences for Africa.	Schmidt, Gerd	Letter to the editor	370
Time to forge powerful new economic bloc.	Versi, Anver	Conference news	2112
Transport glitches remain.	Williams, Femi	Letter to the editor	323
Uganda beats banana wilt.		Brief article	121
White-collar crime.	David, Kafeero	Letter to the editor	265