| The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free Contributor(s): Perry, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316333778 ISBN-13: 9780316333771 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Political Science | World - African - History | Africa - General |
| Dewey: 960.33 |
| LCCN: 2015946918 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.50 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again. Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds. Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, The Rift passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves. |
