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10 Who promotes corruption in Africa?

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NOVEMBER 2009 ISSUE 489 WWW.AFRICASIA.COMSee page 78 for subscription offer detailsReflections54 White Christmas … in black Africa NA Market56 Afriqiyah Airways: ‘We have a world-class product’ 60 African Banker Awards 2009 Real Life62 A shining example Under the Neem Tree64 Talking to the deafDiaspora66 Britain: It started with a kissThe Arts70 Benin: Figure it out for yourselfNew African Footbal 81 Editorial: This is it… 82 Star Interview: Salomon Kalou 86 Ghana win Fifa U-20 World Cup 88 South Africa 2010: Who’s likely to be there?

Baffour’s Beefs 8 ‘Chuck your bloody constitution in

Cover Story 10 Who promotes corruption in Africa?

Lest We Forget 18 Caster Semenya: A 21st century

‘Hottentot Venus’?Features20 Zimbabwe: When will it all end? 26 South Africa:

No doubt African officials engage in corruption. Sometimes on a monumental scale! But what about the Western companies who bribe African officials to win multi-million contracts from our countries? Would corruption in Africa be this bad if Western companies did not fuel it? This hot issue is the focus of our cover story this month.Member of The Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Economic apartheid lives on! 30 Nigeria: Banks still in the firing line 33 Nigeria: Why PDP picked Soludo 34 East & Central Africa: Robbing

indigenous people of their land 38 Ghana: Arise, Founder Nkrumah! 40 Botswana: No change 42 Uganda: When Buganda

turned violent 44 Angola: The legacy

of oil and geopolitics 46 South Africa: Former police

boss on trial 48 African Union: United States

of Africa by 2017 50 Guinea/Sierra Leone:

Border dispute brews