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The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free /

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First North American editionDescription: xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316333771
  • 0316333778
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.96 23
  • 960.3/3 23
LOC classification:
  • DT 30 .5 .P38 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
pt.I: Getting Africa Wrong -- Somalia -- Genesis -- pt. II: 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 -- pt. III: The New Africa -- Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Kenya -- China in Africa -- The New Africa.
Summary: "A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again,"--Amazon.com.Summary: Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. This huge, diverse continent resists the one-size-fits-all solutions of aid workers and policy makers. In this evocative, poetic, and occasionally angry look at an emerging continent, award-winning journalist Alex Perry acknowledges its complexity and dares to ask, and answer: How will Africa's growth change it, and our idea of it, and even of ourselves? With both empathy and skepticism, Perry observes a rapidly globalizing landscape filled with the violent turmoil, rampant corruption, and economic challenges that most readers know--but also a continent sensing the end of an epic, centuries-old quest for liberation. Beginning with a stunning investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, Perry travels across all forty-nine sub-Saharan countries, meeting entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadists. From the drug ports of Guinea-Bissau and the genocide crypts of Rwanda to the remaking of Lagos, Africa's biggest city, and a homestay with Barack Obama's family in Kenya, Perry finds communities changing quickly, deeply, and unevenly--but ultimately breaking free. The culmination of close to a decade of on-the-ground reporting, this book is a fearless challenge to the conventional wisdom on Africa.-- Adapted from book jacket.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Perry, Alex. Rift.
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, September 2015"--Title-page verso.

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

pt.I: Getting Africa Wrong -- Somalia -- Genesis -- pt. II: 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 -- pt. III: The New Africa -- Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Kenya -- China in Africa -- The New Africa.

"A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again,"--Amazon.com.

Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. This huge, diverse continent resists the one-size-fits-all solutions of aid workers and policy makers. In this evocative, poetic, and occasionally angry look at an emerging continent, award-winning journalist Alex Perry acknowledges its complexity and dares to ask, and answer: How will Africa's growth change it, and our idea of it, and even of ourselves? With both empathy and skepticism, Perry observes a rapidly globalizing landscape filled with the violent turmoil, rampant corruption, and economic challenges that most readers know--but also a continent sensing the end of an epic, centuries-old quest for liberation. Beginning with a stunning investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, Perry travels across all forty-nine sub-Saharan countries, meeting entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadists. From the drug ports of Guinea-Bissau and the genocide crypts of Rwanda to the remaking of Lagos, Africa's biggest city, and a homestay with Barack Obama's family in Kenya, Perry finds communities changing quickly, deeply, and unevenly--but ultimately breaking free. The culmination of close to a decade of on-the-ground reporting, this book is a fearless challenge to the conventional wisdom on Africa.-- Adapted from book jacket.

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