Editor
When reports emerged a few years ago that London-based private equity firm Actis Capital was planning to build central Africa’s largest shopping mall, many observers had Kinshasa in mind as the possible destination. The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is Africa’s third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. That, however, was not the plan. The mall was built in Cameroon’s largest city Douala.
While the DR…
