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1991
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Agnès Lambert, « Les hommes d'affaires guinéens », Cahiers d'Études africaines, ID : 10.3406/cea.1991.1568
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A. Lambert — Guinean Businessmen. Having emerged during Seku Ture's government, Guinean businessmen have been able to react to the liberalization carried out since 1984. By using criteria such as trade networks, traders' financial capacities and control over the Guinean market, an October 1990 study of rice importers has discerned three groups: "out-side" Guinean businessmen, foreign businessmen and "inside" Guinean traders who have never left the country. These operators, who have kept the liberalization policy from bearing expected results (in particular, opening the country up to competition), have shared out zones of influence among themselves. Foreign businessmen have been eliminated from distribution within the country; and "outside" Guinean businessmen are involved therein only insofar as they are partners with "inside" traders, who control not only distribution but also re-exportation toward neighboring lands.