ISBN:
978-1-84627-155-7
,
1-84627-155-X
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 576 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
Paperback edition
Keywords:
Afrika Soziales Leben
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Zivilisation
;
Geschichte, nachkoloniale
Abstract:
The finest living Africa correspondent delivers, after a lifetime's close observation of the miraculous continent, a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. Dowden has now, after 35 years on the continent, written a memoiristic history of its peoples' experiences in the wake of the European withdrawal and the superpowers' arrival. He has been present at each of the continent's major crises and writes illuminatingly about them, but he is as passionate about the warmth, wisdom and joy he has encountered in peacetime, and the diversity of habits, attitudes and purposes to which he has been Britain's best witness. His book is no less than a benchmark publication on this most misunderstood and mishandled of continents. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Map -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Chinua Achebe -- 1 Africa Is a Night Flight Away: Images and Realities -- 2 Africa Is Different: Uganda I -- 3 How It All Went Wrong: Uganda II -- 4 The End of Colonialism: New States, Old Societies -- 5 Amazing, But Is It Africa? Somalia -- 6 Forward to the Past: Zimbabwe -- 7 Breaking Apart: Sudan -- 8 A Tick Bigger Than the Dog: Angola -- 9 Missing the Story and the Sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- 10 God, Trust and Trade: Senegal -- 11 Dancers and the Leopard Men: Sierra Leone -- 12 The Positive Positive Women: Aids in Africa -- 13 Copying King Leopold: Congo -- 14 Not Just Another Country: South Africa -- 15 Meat and Money: Eating in Kenya -- 16 Look Out World: Nigeria -- 17 New Colonists or Old Friends? Asia in Africa -- 18 Phones, Asians and the Professionals: The New Africa -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 551-553
