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Leadership
Economy

AN AFRIKAN CULTURAL

ECONOMY IN PERSPECTIVE

First posted on April 17, 2014 by MJ Bhengu

hen the United South African economy. Those on
Nations Statistical the economic peripheries of the two Dr Mfuniselwa Bhengu
Commission recently African countries neither mourn nor Independent Researcher on Afrikan philos-
Wrebased its statistical celebrate the announcement. ophy, Afrikology and Egyptology. author,
calculation of the Nigerian econo- self-publisher and managing director of
my and discovered that what they The change is noteworthy. The
thought was a ‘$270bn economy is international community will pay Phindela Publishing Group
actually worth $510bn’, and then greater attention to Nigeria now that
recommended that the Nigerian its economy casts a larger shadow
economy was actually more than the than South Africa’s and display

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