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Business Daily: What Should Africa's Priorities Be?

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26/10/2016 GMT

What Should Africa's Priorities Be?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, What Should Africa's Priorities Be?

Can the continent invest in its youth, or will it be sunk by collapsing commodity prices?

Can the continent seize its 'demographic dividend' by investing in its youth, or is it at risk of being sunk by its old nemeses of corruption and collapsing commodity prices?

Can the African continent seize its "demographic dividend" by investing in its youth, or is it at risk of being sunk by its old nemeses of corruption and collapsing commodity prices? 

South Africa's economy has ground to a halt as police fight students on the street. Iraj Abedian, chief economist at Pan-African Capital, tells presenter Ed Butler what has gone wrong in his country.

Meanwhile the picture across much of the rest of Africa is far rosier than many assume, despite the end of the commodity super-cycle. That is the contention of Donald Kaberuka, former president of the African Development Bank.

Also, Rahul Tandon reports on how the rising tensions between India and Pakistan have spilled over into Bollywood and TV soap operas.

(Photo: South African students protest in Pretoria. Credit: Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images)

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