Few and far between
Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class. That should worry democrats
LOOK out from the cafés of Accra’s financial district and you could be almost anywhere. In the shadow of glassy skyscrapers, American-accented entrepreneurs order lattes and ponder spreadsheets. “You couldn’t have imagined this even five years ago,” Joseph Baffour, a local financier, says of his surroundings. “There’s been an astronomical change.”
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Few and far between”
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