TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dowden,Richard
TI  - Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles 
SN  - 9781586487539 (hardcopy)
AV  - 500 DT 14 D745a 2010
U1  - 960.32 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Africa
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Historia
KW  - Civilización
KW  - África
KW  - Vida social y costumbres
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -