Financial Times — New chapter in South Africa

"When Griffin Shea first visited downtown Johannesburg as a young journalist, he hardly imagined at as a base for a new business. Back in 2001, less than a decade after the collapse of apartheid, Africa's commercial hub was a zone of desolation. "People were
leaving and the sidewalks were empty," says Shea, a 41-year-old American from
New Iberia, Louisiana.

Sixteen years on though Shea runs a shop in the area. Bridge Books is housed in a marble and granite building that used to be the headquarters of Barclays bank, alongside new bars and restaurants fashionable among the young black professionals who have started to live in the area."

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