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Hélène

QUENOT-SUAREZ

Associate Research Fellow at the Sub Saharan Africa Program 

Fields of expertise: Ghana, Burkina Faso, West Africa, local government, middle classes, urban issues.

Hélène Quénot-Suarez has a PhD thesis in political science on "the building of a local political field in Ouagadougou and Accra". She focused on the solid waste management reforms.She spent about two years in Ghana and Burkina for her research and also lived in western Kenya.

You can have access to her PhD thesis here.

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Consumption in an Uncertain Environment: The Paradox of the African Middle Classes

26 March 2012

Three hundred million people belonging to the middle classes of Africa; three hundred million of potential consumers: an image of this kind is enough to make many an entrepreneur start dreaming. In fact, whereas for many years Afro-pessimism has dominated public opinion in the West, what seems to be the new trend in fashion, in both the media and economic circles, is now an exaggerated Afro-optimism.