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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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Florian Stoll is a postdoc at the Research Center Global Dynamics/Leipzig University and a faculty fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology/Yale University.
The middle classes of Africa are often idealized as spearheads of democratization and opponents of corrupt regimes. But what does the research actually say?