By now, most seasoned observers are aware of the complexities of understanding the growth of the middle class in Africa: unreliable data, confusing and inconsistent definitions, the way that competing narratives of understated or overstated middle class sizes don’t...
Africa Matters kindly invited Trendtype to the Seminar for Japan-UK Cooperation in Africa at the Embassy of Japan yesterday evening. The seminar contained a number of viewpoints on risk and opportunity in Africa. It talked a little more about risk - perhaps because...
This BBC article on a young Nigerian coffee shop, Lagos' Café NEO, positioning itself as a new homegrown Starbucks, touched on some themes we think are pretty interesting. Café NEO already has four outlets - three in upscale parts of Lagos and a fourth in Kigali,...