Ebook: Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles
Author: Dowden Richard, Achebe Chinua
- Tags: Manners and customs, Civilization, History, Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Africa -- Social life and customs -- 21st century, Africa -- Civilization, Africa -- History -- 1960-, Africa
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: Africa
- Language: English
- epub
Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.;Foreword / Chinua Achebe -- Africa is a night flight away: Images and realities -- Africa is different: Uganda I -- How it all went wrong: Uganda II -- The end of colonialism: New states, old societies -- Amazing, but is it Africa? Somalia -- Forward to the past: Zimbabwe -- Breaking apart: Sudan -- A tick bigger than the dog: Angola -- Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- God, trust and trade: Senegal -- Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone -- The positive positive women: AIDS in Africa -- Copying King Leopold: Congo -- Not just another country: South Africa -- Meat and money: Eating in Kenya -- Look out world: Nigeria -- New colonists or old friends? Asia in Africa -- Phones, Asians and the professionals: The new Africa.
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