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Index taps Africa’s growing wealth

By Sophia Grene

Published: March 18 2008 04:06 | Last updated: March 18 2008 04:06

Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, has for decades been thought of as, at best, a volatile investment opportunity with the glamour and extreme risk of diamond mines.

Now a different story is being told, as Ayo Salami, a former lecturer at London’s Cass Business School, suggests the continent is finally reaping the benefits of painful institutional reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

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