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The rift : a new Africa breaks free / Alex Perry.

by Perry, Alex.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Africa -- History -- 1960-

Africa -- Forecasting -- 21st century.

Africa -- Politics and government.

Africa -- Economic conditions.

Africa -- Social conditions.

9780316333771 (hc.)

0316333778 (hc.)

First North American edition.

xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, September 2015"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-422) and index.

Getting Africa wrong. Somalia ; Genesis -- The rift. South Sudan ; Uganda and the Central African Republic ; Rwanda and Congo ; Zimbabwe ; South Africa ; Made in Africa ; Guinea-Bissau and Mali ; Nigeria ; Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda -- The new Africa. Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Kenya ; China in Africa ; The new Africa.

"A controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong. Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with an investigation into a largely unreported 2011 war crime when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died, he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-: Islamists, dictators and aid workers -- who would keep them in their bonds. Sure to spark debate, the author passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves"--Provided by publisher.

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