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Patrick Bond

Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

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Are ‘African lions’ really roaring?

Africa: Latest fibs from world financiers

by Patrick Bond

18 May 2011

According to a new report from the African Development Bank, thirty percent of the African population qualifies as forming part of the middle class and the continent is on the brink of an economic take-off. Not quite, says South African socio-economic analyst Patrick Bond as he breaks down (...)