The West Isn't Wild About Migration From Africa, Right?

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Many African countries, particularly in West Africa, are actually middle-income countries. And so their domestic markets are much bigger than we've thought before. There's been a scramble of Western companies to sell products to the African middle class. China is the largest trade partner now for the first time with the vast majority of African countries.

The United Nations says humanity has reached 8 billion, but Western nations are worried about population decline. Africa isn’t, though. The continent is about to shape the rest of the century.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, and edited by Sean Rameswaram who also hosted.

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