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Africa’s emerging economies to take the lead in consumer market growth

''Africa’s emerging economies present exciting opportunities to global businesses for expansion in retail and distribution. Changing demographics and improving business environments across the continent will be just two of the factors contributing to rising household consumption, which is predicted to reach $2.5 trillion by 2030.

Seven countries—Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa—will soon hold half of the continent’s population, and 43 percent of Africans across the continent will belong to the middle or upper classes. The rising income levels among all socioeconomic groups and increasing demand for goods and services should encourage businesses to explore introducing their products to the continent. Lucrative opportunities throughout Africa exist for investment, production, and delivery.''

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2019/04/03/africas-emerging-economies-to-take-the-lead-in-consumer-market-growth/

Reflect7:
Stop lying. No source said ''perhaps''. Here is the direct quote:

''The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops” [in Egypt].

Where did you see ''perhaps''?

Check the Guardian article.

Reflect7:
The 16,000 km wall is what is visible TODAY, but the studies and research work conducted show they were much much more extensive than that in the past, thus far surpassing the wall of China in length.

No 16,000km shitt is visible today.

16,000 km is its ESTIMATED length at the height of Benin's power.

Reflect7:
That is the point being made, which you probably understand, but your slave complex to worship everything non-African while diminishing your own history is pre-programmed into you and far too many others, rather disgracefully.

I hate men that resorts to insult during argument to blackmail people into accepting their views.

I don't take them serious and rarely engage them.

Everything on Benin is based on estimate and the first man that explored the so-called wall didnt even recognized it as a wall.

The Ming Wall of China was about 8,000 km long and was built around the time its believed Binis started their rampart.

And 8,000 km is half of 16,000 km.

Again, researchers haven't even agreed on the year Benins started their "wall."

So at what point in history was Benin rampart 4 times bigger than the great wall?

Sicilyjoe:
Yes they capture slave by them self's , nothing like malaria and other disease then, even till tomorrow if they want to start slave trade they will still capture u and ur family

Your ancestors were captured like rabbits that's why you speak highly of your lord and saviours. Anything white retard like you see it like the greatest thing after slides bread.

BKayy:
You see why I said that you are the same with the guy.
Please explain to us why there are communities with - Igbo attached to it at the four corners of Igboland.

Igbo-Akiri towards the border with Ẹdo people
Igbo ịdu towards the border with Ekoi
Odenigbo towards border with Idoma
Ụmụ Igbo towards the border with Ogoni
Then Amaigbo at the center of Igboland.

You see, unlike you people ancient Igbo people are philosophers and knew that a day like this will come thats why they did all these.
Unlike you people, they
-Developed their calendar system
-Direct Republican system (most advanced)
-Written constitution
-Counting
-Writing
-Metal smiting
Etc

Pay Attention here "Of all the black groups, the white avoided writing much about Igbo people because there they met what disapproves with their belief of black people. They saw advanced systems most notably the direct Republic which supercedes that of Athens"

The word 'Igbo' had existed long before the advent of colonialism to describe a people (around the River Niger) but not as a Nation or ethnic group as we now classify peoples in this country.

Classifications based on ethnic groups is a creation of the British Colonial Masters.

Reflect7:
This alone is the start of your miseducation.

This statement is symptomatic of how DISGRACEFULLY IGNORANT you and so many Nigerians are about your history.

Are you aware that the entire southern and northern Nigeria was a vast textile manufacturing hub before the whites invaded?

And that the colonialists destroyed the industry so we could buy textiles from Europe instead?

Are you aware that We exported soap to Europe before colonisation, because THEY had no soap industry?

Are you aware that Italy had to BAN imported Nigerian SOAP in the 1800s in order to protect the young Italian soap manufacturing industry?

Are you aware that BENIN CITY had street lights and underground drainage a full 300 years before London?

Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the late 1490s?

Are you aware that in BENIN today sits the largest structure ever constructed by man, the Benin Earthworks and Military Ramparts?

Described by the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era"?

According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Are you aware that BENIN CITY, which was essentially the capital of ancient southern Nigeria, was described by European visitors from the 1500s as one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world?

A city where crime was non-existent, and people saw no need to build front doors to their houses?

''Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

You see, until you NIGERIANS are mentally decolonised and RECONNECTED WITH YOUR HISTORY, and remember who you really are, rather than who the colonialists told you you were, you will continue to wallow in ignorance, self hate, pessimism, racial inferiority complex, and moral debasement.

Thanks so much for this. God bless you

oyatz:
The word 'Igbo' had existed long before the advent of colonialism to describe a people (around the River Niger) but not as a Nation or ethnic group as we now classify peoples in this country.

Classifications based on ethnic groups is a creation of the British Colonial Masters.

I won't insult or blame you because you are putting the horse before the rope.

Was Nigeria existing then?
Do we actually know each other to call ourselves ethnic group of a country or a full independent Nation?

BKayy:
I won't insult or blame you because you are putting the horse before the rope.

Was Nigeria existing then?
Do we actually know each other to call ourselves ethnic group of a country or a full independent Nation?

Where did I talk about Nigeria in my post?

The existence of Nigeria is NOT a prerequisite for the emergence of ethnic groups. However ethnic identities in this country became an important identitiy after the advent of British Colonialism and became permanent Identities after Independence in 1960 because it became a plateform

Of course each community/village/Kingdom/Empire knew their neighbours well.