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Contents
April 2008
16 Cover Story Africa’s Top 200 Companies
43 Special Report energy in Africa
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74 Countryfiles Kikwete deals with scandals
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Editorial 13 Killing the Golden Goose
Cover Story Africa's Top 200 Companies 16 Southern African dominance slipping 18 The Top 200 Rankings Tables 24 North Africa: Egypt and Morocco battle it out 26 West Africa: Banks lead Nigerian charge 30 Mauritius nudging Kenya for lead 34 Botswana up, Zimbabwe down
Company profiles 38 LC2 Nationwide 40 Basil Read 42 Kenya Airways EABL
Special Report Energy in Africa 43 Angola challenges Nigeria 44 Another oil strike for Ghana 46 Africa now a new force in global gas 48 S Africa: battle of the nuclear giants
Country Report Burkina Faso 52 Interview: Prime Minister Tertius Zongo 56 A spirit of reconciliation
2010 World Cup Watch 58 Manuel finds extra $3bn
Commodities 60 Tea prices boil
View from the City 62 Does foreign aid work for Africa?
Countryfiles 64 Nigeria: Yar'Adua's many trials 68 SouthAfrica: Land issue temperature rising 72 Liberia: Exporters fund port upgrade 74 Tanzania: Kikwete deals with scandals 76 Cameroon: Aluminium the new gold?
Reviews Book/Music 80 Greenspan's Bubbles 82 Nigeria's Afrobeat legend
