The African Challengers

The world, despite the international crisis, is still increasing the economic globalization. We can read hundreds of articles and studies about emerging countries, mainly the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) but not easy to find african reports in these kind of "global economy analysis".

The boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published a study about African evolution in a global market. It analyzes some African companies that want to compete in a global economy and details some advantages and challenges of the region.


I am sure that in Africa it exists opportunities, the interest of China, India and developed countries shows that, but the main interest today is to take these opportunities without stimulate inequalities, that it seems quite more difficult.

African countries are growing more than world average but the problem is inside these statistics. Despite the GDP growth in African countries most part of the population does not benefit in the same way. And between countries we can see easily big differences also. It's interesting to note that in this study 77,5% of the studied companies comes from 3 countries that explains that major part of the region is not having the same benefits of the growth that African statistics show.

BCG study