In 1994 I was on a sudden asked by the publisher.

In 1994 I was on a sudden asked by the publisher, Afif Ben Yedder to abandon my duties at modern African and New African Life and take throughout the editorship of African Business from Linda Van Buren who was leaving for personal reasons.

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I accepted although I was a little sad to be leaving recently made known African. Working for New African had been exciting. We had decided to change the face of reporting forward Africa and had taken an uncompromising stance upon putting Africa's interest first. We took to a high degree strong positions on African issues which