| Africa Betrayed 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Ayittey, George B. N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312104006 ISBN-13: 9780312104009 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $85.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1993 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 'Africa Betrayed' is a powerful attack on the dictators who have ruined an entire continent. Almost all the nationalists who took power after independence and the military despots who in turn overthrew them have proven even worse than the colonialists they replaced. Dr. Ayittey writes devastatingly on the black neo-colonialism, arguing that commentators are naive to blame Africa's misery on external factors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - History | Africa - General - Political Science | World - African |
| Dewey: 320.96 |
| LCCN: 92016026 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.54" W x 8.6" (1.28 lbs) 412 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '...Ayittey's bitter reading is an appropriate first therapy to the malaise American policies have helped to breed. ' Wall Street Journal 'Ayittey is unpredictable - and provocative. I was prepared to hate Africa Betrayed, but found myself engrossed.' Village Voice Africans are angry. Thirty years of independence have brought nothing but economic misery, famine, senseless civil wars, wanton destruction, flagrant violations of human rights, and brutal repression. At independence from colonial rule, Africans had hoped for liberty, prosperity, and a new beginning. They have been cruelly disappointed. Ayittey writes devastatingly on the horrors of black neocolonialism, arguing that it is just not good enough for commentators always to blame external factors for Africa's misery. Ayittey sees a second liberation struggle building up throughout the continent - one that will sweep away the kleptocracy and rediscover the African traditions that have endured throughout the horrors of both white colonialism and black neocolonialism. |