Marcellin Boguy

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Marcellin Boguy is a journalist at Notre Voie in Ivory Coast. His specialist area is the life and culture of Ivory Coast. He has been working for a long time with the Goethe Institute in Abidjan and the Studio Ecole Mozaik, a school of journalism run in cooperation with forty partner radio stations throughout the country.

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Two women in vibrant traditional attire walk joyfully down a street, surrounded by smiling children.

Enough of being poor

By Marcellin Boguy

In western Africa a new middle class is emerging. Their consumer behaviour is determining the demand for products – home-produced and imported goods, on the internet or at the village market. The people of Ivory Coast in particular are looking to the future with optimism.

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