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Working in Africa

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Inside this issue

• Technology has been a significant factor behind improved living conditions throughout the continent

• As globalisation reaches Africa, an environment friendly to business and accommodating to visitors has been built - -

Content

A struggle to reverse the brain drain

But instability and conflict remain impediments to development, writes William Wallis

Nigeria: Isolation breeds insecurity

Tom Burgis on the impact of a big kidnapping industry

South Africa: Life with a contradictory character

Richard Lapper looks at the contrast between elements of first and third worlds

Kenya: Political uncertainty unsettles returnees

Parselelo Kantai talks to a ‘repatriate’ banker about employment conditions back home

Rwanda: Making it easier to do business

But reality has not matched the rhetoric, writes William Wallis