Guinea-Conakry retail landscape
Guinea has seen better days. Political instability and an uncertain economic outlook have worn down consumer confidence, and it shows
Category: Field notes
Africa Trades More Than We Think — and Policy Keeps Getting It Wrong
You would not expect a small market town on the edge of the Sahel to sell much seafood. Yet Paga,
Up to one-third of EU clothes “recycled” to Kenya are immediately dumped or burned
A report published by Clean Up Kenya and Wildlight for the Changing Markets Foundation (CMF) has found that as much
Kyrgyzstan – one sheep’s head and mare’s milk to go please
Hitting the street in Bishkek in summer you are confronted with an army of informal beverage stands popping up all
Understanding the DRC’s supply chain challenges
In October 1990 when Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) troops poured over the border from Uganda, the Zairian (now the Democratic
Turkmenistan gas – if you want to prosper, build pipelines
In 1935, twenty-eight horse riders on their famed Akhal-Teke horses, embarked on an endurance race from Ashkhabad to Moscow. Through
Red gold – hard to avoid Iran’s saffron
Travel with any Iranian man domestically, and he will likely be armed with a shopping list from a wife, mother
Armenia – from a country of wine to Churchill’s favourite brandy
Starbucks recently got into hot water for a poster in California of an Armenian woman in traditional clothing, drinking coffee
Tehran’s Grand Bazaar – from Angry Birds to pomegranates
It is 8 am in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, and Mohsen is already six hours into his working day. His day
Spicing things up in Ethiopia’s infrastructure and retail landscape
If former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ever returns to Bole Road in Addis Ababa, the scene of the assassination attempt
