Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / Richard Dowden.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2010.Description: xiv, 576 pages : maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781586487539 (hardcopy)
- 1586487531
- Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Africa -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Africa -- Civilization
- Africa -- History -- 1960-
- Africa -- Foreign relations
- Africa -- Historia -- 1960-
- Africa -- Civilización
- África -- Vida social y costumbres -- Siglo XX
- África -- Vida social y costumbres -- Siglo XXI
- Africa -- Relaciones exteriores
- 960.32
- 500 DT 14 D745a 2010
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Originally published: London : Portobello, 2008
Africa is a night flight away: images and realities
Africa is different: Uganda I
How it all went wrong: Uganda II
The end of colonialism: new states, old societies
Amazing, but is it Africa? Somalia
Forward to the past: Zimbabwe
Breaking apart: Sudan
A tick bigger than the dog: Angola
Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda
God, trust and trade: Senegal
Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone
The positive positive women: AIDS in Africa
Copying King Leopold: Congo
Not just another country: South Africa
Meat and money: eating in Kenya
Look out world: Nigeria
New colonists or old friends? Asia in Africa
Phones, Asians and the professionals: the new Africa
Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo
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