A voice for Africa
Africa Week's editorial team are the former editors of the world renowned West Africa magazine. Africa Week is an exciting media project for Africa. With the owners of West Africa magazine failing in a messy boardroom dispute to reach any agreement to keep the 85-year old publication going, the editors took on the task by publishing Africa Week magazine, a print edition and an online edition.
West Africa magazine had dedicated readers and subscribers world-wide and they believe that the sterling work of West Africa published since 1917 to provide a strong voice for Africa must continue. So, Africa Week, in the mode of West Africa, covers African affairs and issues that impinge on the continent every week on the web. We provide readers not only with the same trenchant and incisive coverage West Africa was renowned for, but also ensure that there is a powerful alternative to Western dominance of the flow of information globally. Our ultimate goal is to be a multimedia organisation, taking in both print and the electronic media.
Africa Week is a medium that provides knowledge to Africans in order to strengthen their voices. Africa Week shares information that will enhance knowledge in Africa and about Africa. Africans on the continent and in the diaspora need knowledge to deal with the complex social and economic issues they face in their work and daily lives. Africa Week will be at the centre of the information-sharing network that we hope to develop for the benefit of Africa.
Each week online, subscribers will get informative comments and opinions that will help shape their views on Africa. Subscribers will also get a print edition that is not a summary of what they have accessed over the week on our web editions. Our editors, with considerable years of journalistic experience behind them, are leading a team of correspondents who will provide incomparable insights into a continent that is anything but predictable. We will give you in-depth coverage of politics, economics and business, the environment and climate change issues and their effects on the continent, social issues, and the continent's debt and, of course, the conflicts that tend to bedevil Africa. Our standard of writing will be of the highest order and our analysis will be rigorous and informed.
We will also provide you with a team of columnists that will give readers a fascinating mix of insights, views and ideas. Our columnists will offer a range of sharp and critical analysis of issues that are of utmost importance to Africa. They will provoke and will not come from the same political school of thought.
Africa Week will also cover Asian business and financial news. There is no denying that Asia has made considerable economic progress against all the odds. We should not forget that 40 years ago, when African countries were gaining their independence, the World Bank/IMF forecast was that these countries would find themselves in the position the successful Asian countries are now in. The forecast went on to add that Asian countries would be in the position Africa is now facing! What a turn up for the books.
Given that Africa has not made much progress through its trade links with Western Europe and America, it is time to turn to Asia for inspiration and, hopefully, economic prosperity. Africa must emulate the Asian success story. There is a lot Africans can learn from Asian business, financial management and work ethic.
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