02081cam a22003615a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020002900069020001500098035001300113040001800126041000800144050002600152082001100178100002900189245006700218260004200285300003800327500005200365505068100417520024101098651005101339651005101390651002601441651002701467651003101494651002801525651002901553651005101582651005001633651003601683BJBSDDR20230410103928.0ta081024s2010    nyu           000 0 eng    a9781586487539 (hardcopy)  a1586487531  a15497084  aDLCcDLCbeng  aeng14a500 DT 14bD745a 201000a960.321 aDowden, Richard, d1949-10aAfrica :baltered states, ordinary miracles /cRichard Dowden.  aNew York, NY :bPublicAffairs,c2010.  axiv, 576 pages : bmaps ; c25 cm  aOriginally published: London : Portobello, 2008  aAfrica 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  aDowden 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 0aAfricaxSocial life and customsy20th century. 0aAfricaxSocial life and customsy21st century. 0aAfricaxCivilization. 0aAfricaxHistoryy1960- 0aAfricaxForeign relations. 4aAfricaxHistoriay1960- 4aAfrica xCivilización  4aÁfrica xVida social y costumbres ySiglo XX 4aÁfricaxVida social y costumbresySiglo XXI 4aAfrica xRelaciones exteriores