Black Positive People : One-third of Africans have entered middle class

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

In the Spirit of Sankofa,




One-third of Africans have entered middle class



Johannesburg (AFP) - More than one in three Africans have entered the middle class in the past decade, and their numbers are set to swell thanks to rapid economic growth, a study showed Monday.

At least 370 million Africans, or 34 percent of the continent's 1.1 billion people, are now middle class, according to a survey by the African Development Bank.

http://news.yahoo.com/one-three-africans-entered-middle-class-175053335.html

A study by the African Development Bank found that the continent's middle class is strongest in countries with a robust and growing private sector (AFP Photo/Pacome Pabamdji)

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