Journal
Europe and Africa, honestly.
Notes on the economic ties between the two continents — what works, what doesn’t, and what never makes the brochure. Every number carries its source.
Europe buys raw material. And sells machines back.
82 percent of what the EU imports from sub-Saharan Africa is primary goods. 67 percent of what it sells back is manufactures. The numbers come from the European Commission's own statistics — and three of the things I set out to prove did not survive checking.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
A series on the economic entanglement of Europe and Africa — and a promise about how it will be written.