The Rift
A New Africa Breaks Free
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First North American edition.
Description: xiv, 432 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Africa -- History -- 1960-
Africa -- Forecasting -- 21st century.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Africa -- Economic conditions.
Africa -- Social conditions.
Africa -- History -- 1960-
Africa -- Forecasting -- 21st century.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Africa -- Economic conditions.
Africa -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780316333771
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HISTORY Africa Per | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index.