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There are a number of different ways bloggers usually get paid and it’s worth mentioning that you need to focus on creating good content first. If every post is a sales pitch, you’re going to turn people off. Help people first, get paid later. Here are some of the methods you can use to monetize your blog... Option 1: Adsense Adsense is a platform owned by Google, all you have to do is install a little bit of code on your blog and then AdSense will automatically show ads. When people click on these ads, you’ll generate an income. You can use a WordPress plugin to help you properly set up and shown Adsense ads. Here’s an adsense ad in action. It’s worth mentioning that this is probably the easiest way to monetize your blog. But it’s not going to make you a millionaire! And it can often damage the view of your site. I much prefer this second option… Option 2: Sponsored Ad Placements Similar to Adsense, but with a few exceptions. It still relies on you showing ads on ...

Africa is China’s China, and a lot of the policies that China has toward Africa seem geared to avoid the mistakes that the United States made toward China in the 1980’s and 1990’s. So as China develops and the population ages, it doesn’t make any sense to keep a lot of the factories in China, so China is moving factories and know-how over to Africa just like the manufacturing moved from the US to China in the 1980’s and 1990’s. In the immediate term, the factories are moving to Southeast Asia, but places like Vietnam and Indonesia are leap frogging very quickly, and so pretty soon they won’t be suitable to put the factories that were in China a decade ago. The mistakes that China wants to avoid are those that the US made a generation ago. Basically, the jobs went to China, and the people that lost the jobs were forgotten. What China’s economic strategy is is to focus on high tech, and then develop a middle class in Africa that can afford the high technology Chinese goods. The other...