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050 0 0 _aDT 30 .5
_b.P38 2015
082 0 4 _a320.96
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100 1 _aPerry, Alex
245 1 4 _aThe Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free /
250 _aFirst North American edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2015
300 _axiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_bcolor illustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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500 _a"Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, September 2015"--Title-page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index.
505 0 _apt.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.
520 _a"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.
520 _aAfrica 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.--
_cAdapted from book jacket.
648 7 _aSince 1960
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650 7 _aEconomic history.
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650 7 _aForecasting.
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650 7 _aPolitics and government.
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650 7 _aSocial conditions.
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650 7 _aSozioökonomischer Wandel.
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650 7 _aWirtschaftsentwicklung.
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651 0 _aAfrica
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_y1960-
651 0 _aAfrica
_xForecasting
_y21st century.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xEconomic conditions.
651 0 _aAfrica
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651 7 _aAfrica.
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651 7 _aSchwarzafrika.
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655 7 _aHistory.
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775 0 8 _iReproduction of (manifestation):
_aPerry, Alex.
_tRift.
_dLondon : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015
_z9780297871224
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015946918-b.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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