| Type: | Newsmagazine |
| Format: | Magazine |
| Owners: | Pearson plc, via Financial Times |
| Headquarters: | London, England |
| Website: | www.thisisafricaonline.com |
| Circulation: | 20,000 |
This Is Africa is an English-language bi-monthly business publication owned by the Financial Times and edited in London. It examines African business and politics in a global context. This Is Africa investigates foreign policy towards Africa and tracks the rise of the African consumer. Adrienne Klasa was one of the editors of the magazine.[1]
According to the magazine’s 2013 media pack, the readership circulation by job description is 25% Senior Government Officials, 24% Consultants and Intermediaries, 20% C-Suite, 20% Director of Policy and 11% Institutional Investors, while the regional readership breakdown is 25% Africa, 24% Americas, 23% Europe, 18% Asia and 10% Middle East.[2]
This Is Africa focuses primarily on FDI business and political developments that impact on how Africa interacts with the world. It has regular sections on:
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Bulletin | a record of all the new and upcoming legislation that might impact on business concerns across Africa. | |
| Development | a global perspective of development in Africa, including education, agriculture, healthcare and business. | |
| Policy | a review of the latest government policy across Africa. | |
| Perspectives | opinion pieces and interviews with Kofi Annan,[3] Muhammad Ali Pate,[4] Mo Ibrahim,[5] Gordon Brown,[6] Ban Ki-moon.[7] | |
| Reports | a series of in-depth reports conducted with WEF, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), and the Brookings Institution[8] on themes such as agriculture, development and education. |