Came across this read which provides a good background to understanding history of patronage in African politics published by Foreign Affairs Magazine. In the post-independence era of the 1960s, “[Foreign]…
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Extracts from The Times newspaper of 1955 (1) “Throughout the country the middle classes, men in the upper ranks of the law; the professions and education are instinctively against the…
Do you know that the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions were all led by discontented middle-class individuals? Middle-class status is defined by education, occupation and the ownership of assets. These…
Aa result of a hedging deal gone wrong on the back of the rally in gold prices buoyed by the decision of 15 European Central banks in September 1999 to…