Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles /

In captivating prose, 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.

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Dowden, Richard
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New York : Public Affairs, 2009.
الطبعة:1st ed.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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 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.