'Africa rising' reads the headline in this week's international edition of The Economist, a cover illustrated with a small boy playing with a kite, fashioned in the shape of the continent, buoyed at last by the happy winds of change.
A less flattering cover, however, has confronted readers of the British edition. It shows a balloon emblazoned with the Union Flag drifting helplessly towards a cloud-strewn sky. 'Into the storm.' The headline writes itself.
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