Orey Ogundi is a journalist who covers consumers in retail for the economist. He says Gen Z shoppers are an important group to understand because they're going to define the new era of consumerism. "They have really expensive tastes but apparently not very much money," he adds.
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to discover the spending habits of Generation Z and millennials. And examining the work of Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who was an unlikely midwife at the birth of modern satire.
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