Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / Richard Dowden.

By:

Dowden, Richard [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 576 pages : maps ; 25 cmISBN:

1586487531 (hardback)
9781586487539 (hardback)
9781586488161 (paperback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

960.32 22

LOC classification:

DT14 .D69 2009

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Originally published: London : Portobello, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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