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Semiconductors
UK chip sector cannot ‘recreate Taiwan in south Wales’, says tech minister
...Arm is planning to return to the public markets with a New York IPO later this year but has ruled out a London listing....
August 3, 2023
Semiconductors
UK government unveils long-awaited £1bn semiconductor strategy
...Americo Lemos, chief executive of the compound semiconductor wafer manufacturer IQE, said the plan “rightly focuses on the areas where the UK is a global leader”....
May 18, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Nilanjana Roy
The cookbooks that feed the soul
...“What the early proponents of Internet recipes could not have anticipated . . . was that the sheer volume of information might prove stultifying rather than democratizing,” wrote Ken Albala, a professor...
May 12, 2023
The Big Read
The semiconductor boom: has the UK missed its chance?
...Americo Lemos, chief executive of IQE, which makes semiconductor materials in Newport and Cardiff, says that while “every government has started to put measures in place to support the industry . . . the...
August 15, 2022
News in-depthGuinea-Bissau
Cocaine and a very murky coup in Guinea-Bissau
...José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto, the ex-Navy chief, served time in prison in the US....
February 4, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Arab Strap reunite after 15 years for As Days Get Dark
...The cover shows an allegorical painting called “The Night escorted by the geniuses of Love and Study” by 19th-century Brazilian artist Pedro Américo....
March 12, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT SeriesFestive Food & Drink
Why nuts are the perfect party guest
...Most foods have been demonised at some point but nuts are different, says Ken Albala, author of Nuts: A Global History....
November 27, 2020
David Pilling
The mixed legacy of Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
...As finance minister in the last government run by the Americo-Liberian elite (of which she was not technically a part), she blasted the privileged class descended from freed American slaves for treating...
January 10, 2018
News in-depthWorld
Liberia’s man of the match faces challenging line-up
...The former footballer enjoys phenomenal popularity, especially among poor and so-called “native” Liberians, as distinct from the Americo-Liberians — those of African American descent — who dominated business...
December 29, 2017
Lunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
...“If ‘Americo-Liberian’ is defined as having a heritage in America, then definitely I’m not,” she says, taking a sip of water. I had been told she might order a beer, but she has not....
March 18, 2016
World
Liberia’s election threatens its fragile stability
...We’re talking about building a solid, democratic foundation.” He says he wants to end divisiveness, particularly between Americo-Liberians and the indigenous population. He is a born-again Christian....
April 8, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Samba Touré: Gandadiko — review
...Although this is a post-crisis album (Touré’s Albala dealt directly with the insurrection), it is also a record steeped in social problems: alcoholism, djinns, the task of reconstructing the country....
January 30, 2015
Currencies
Brazilian real falls to 11-year low over risk to austerity plan
...José Américo Dias, the PT’s national communications secretary, said there was evidence opposition political parties paid for the protest....
March 9, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Samba Touré: Albala
...Samba Touré Albala (Glitterbeat)...
May 10, 2013
European companies
Banco Popular gets backing for share sale
...vote of confidence in the deal at a time when many international banks are scaling back exposure to Spain....
November 8, 2012
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Isabel dos Santos
...Dos Santos’s banking interests drew her into partnership with Portugal’s richest man, Américo Amorim, whose energy venture Amorim Energia she joined....
March 29, 2013
Special Report
National symbols: Ethnic issues remain a persistent undercurrent
...“Americo-Liberians”, the settlers’ descendants, were at Liberia’s founding – and remain today – a tiny segment of the population....
December 7, 2011
Vanessa Friedman
Power dressers
...As a Harvard-educated woman who has worked overseas, Johnson-Sirleaf is perceived by many Liberians as part of the minority Americo-Liberian upper class, even though she is not....
February 18, 2011
European companies
Investors eye stake in Banco Popular
...Many of the bank’s largest investors, including Portuguese billionaire Américo Amorim, have publicly said they would not sell their Popular stakes, despite the premium....
June 23, 2008
ReviewFT Magazine
Simply the zest
...Albala praises the web as a tool of research. Some Google-browsing would have detected those mistakes....
September 28, 2007
World
NOSTALGIA: Stepping out of time into the 1960s
...She married Américo, her late Portuguese husband, and stayed on to run the Central after her sister moved to Portugal....
October 30, 2006
World
Tension mounts as foes dispute Chávez victory
...Americo Martin of the Democratic Co-ordinator initially expressed disbelief that the Organisation of American States and the Carter Center would “give their seal of approval to this rip-off”....
August 16, 2004

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