Where should Business Daily go in Africa?
| 17:22 UK time, Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Hi Nuala here, Jonathan Frewin from Business Daily asked me to post this request.
Dear World Have Your Say listeners,
We need your help! We're preparing the ground for a planned trip that Business Daily presenter Steve Evans is hoping to take in a few weeks time, as part of an exciting bus trip across West Africa, to explore how the arrival of the World Cup on African soil for the first time will change the continent.
The bus journey will take in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, including, of course, three of sub-Saharan Africa's five world cup finalists. We have lots of exciting visits planned, including to hometown in Ivory Coast, as well as big cities in all five countries, and lots of smaller places too.
Being a business programme though, we're keen to find interesting stories about how business is changing in Africa. So where do you think we should be going - preferably near the coast - and who should we be talking to? We'd like to hear about issues on the ground there that might resonate more widely, and be of interest to our listeners all over the planet!
For example:
Why is Ghana such a popular destination for a range of big multinational companies, including Google?
How difficult is it to cross the borders between any of these countries, without being
What are the latest developments with mobile phone technology, where Africa increasingly leads, and others follow?
And who is coming back to these countries, having lived abroad for many years?
Please don't feel restricted to just these topics - we're interested to hear about any other ideas you have that might be worth exploring. And whilst we're sure regular WHYS listeners in Nigeria and Ghana will have plenty to say, lots of gold stars (paper ones, of course!) will go to people who can help us uncover interesting stories in Togo, Benin and the Ivory Coast. We'd particularly like to know how Togo and Benin will thrive on the African, and world, stages, sandwiched between giants like Ghana and Nigeria.
Thanks so much in advance for any of your thoughts.
