TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry,Alex
TI  - The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free
SN  - 9780316333771
AV  - DT 30 .5 .P38 2015
U1  - 320.96 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Economic history
KW  - fast
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sozioökonomischer Wandel
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wirtschaftsentwicklung
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 1960-
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Schwarzafrika
N1  - "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
N2  - "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.--
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015946918-b.html
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015946918-d.html
ER  -