{"id":2126,"date":"2015-01-01T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.wi.fh-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T09:32:42","slug":"2126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/2126\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Happy New Year\u00a02015: Business in Africa<\/h2>\n<p><strong>01\/01\/2015<\/strong>\u00a0(Author THS): In May\u00a02000 the Economist\u00a0showed on its cover\u00a0a photo of a young African soldier with a rocket launcher slung over his shoulder. Above it was the headline, \u201cThe hopeless continent.\u201d\u00a0This image is changing rapidly. The usage of the phrase &#8220;Crisis in Africa&#8221; is rapidly declining, whereas more and more &#8220;Business in Africa&#8221; is becoming a theme as can bee seen via an analysis of the usage of these phrases in books:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/interactive_chart?content=Crisis+in+Africa%2CBusiness+in+Africa&amp;year_start=1960&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2CCrisis%20in%20Africa%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBusiness%20in%20Africa%3B%2Cc0\" name=\"ngram_chart\" width=\"700\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>Source: books.google.com\/ngram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year\u00a02015: Business in Africa 01\/01\/2015\u00a0(Author THS): In May\u00a02000 the Economist\u00a0showed on its cover\u00a0a photo of a young African [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}