Wish you were beer: Africa is beverage’s next frontier

Interest by brewing giants is a signal the world’s next great urban labour force will be bigger than China and India’s

21 November 2021 - 18:12 By David Fickling

A three-way fight over control of Africa’s beer industry may be approaching its endgame.  ..

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