links for 2009-03-13

As Europeans are less willing to import fresh fruit products from Ghana due to economic slowdown, one Ghanaian food company is discovering that there's a growing local market for high-quality local products. Ghana's middle class is growing, and local markets are starting to become very appealing for export-oriented producers.

Good NYTimes piece on Alfred Sirleaf and Liberia's chalk newspaper, "The Daily Talk"

Afrigadget's Eric Hersman interviews Alfred Sirleaf, founder of Liberia's "The Daily Talk", a chalkboard newspaper that publishes in Monrovia