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David Styan

David Styan teaches in the school of politics, Birkbeck College, London. He is editor of Underdevelopment in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Ossrea, 2004), a posthumous collection of essays by Eshetu Chole, Ethiopia's leading 20th-century economist.

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Tony Blair and Africa - old images, new realities

A proclaimed "year of Africa" is deaf to the ways that the most global of 21st-century citizens – Africans living in the rich north – are reinventing their home countries' economies, says David Styan.