The Rift : a New Africa Breaks Free

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Label

The Rift : a New Africa Breaks Free

Title remainder

a New Africa Breaks Free

Statement of responsibility

Alex Perry

Creator

• Perry, Alex

Author

• Perry, Alex

Subject

• Africa -- Forecasting -- 21st century
• Africa -- History -- 1960-
• Africa -- Politics and government
• Africa -- Social conditions
• Economic history
• Forecasting
• History
• Politics and government
• Schwarzafrika
• Since 1960
• Social conditions
• Sozioökonomischer Wandel
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Africa
• Africa -- Economic conditions

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "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.--

Has edition

• Rift

Assigning source

Adapted from book jacket

Cataloging source

IFJ

Dewey number

• 320.96
• 960.3/3

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DT30.5

LC item number

.P385 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography