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.
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| Язык: | английский |
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New York :
Public Affairs,
2009.
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| Редактирование: | 1st ed. |
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Оглавление:
- 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.