The poverty of ordinary Africans is underreported and rising. The figures most widely cited are those from the World Bank, which states that the number of ‘extremely poor’ people in Africa has increased to 388 million now compared with 284 million in 1990 (although the percentage has fallen, from 56% to 43%). However, the World Bank defines the ‘extremely poor’ as those living on $1.90 a day or less. This is misleading since someone living on $2 a day is clearly still extrem