Understanding Africa’s middle class
The middle classes of Africa are often idealized as spearheads of democratization and opponents of corrupt regimes. But what does the research actually say?
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Antje Daniel is substitute professor at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna and also associated scholar at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg.
The middle classes of Africa are often idealized as spearheads of democratization and opponents of corrupt regimes. But what does the research actually say?