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020			_a9781846271557 (pbk.)
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050	1	4	_a500 DT 14 _bD745a 2008
082	0	0	_a960.32
100	1		_aDowden, Richard, _d1949-
245	1	0	_aAfrica : _baltered states, ordinary miracles / _cRichard Dowden ; with a foreword by Chinua Achebe.
260			_aLondon : _bPortobello Books, _c2008.
300			_axvi, 576 pages : _billustrations., maps.; _c21 cm.
440		0	_aHistory / Current Affairs
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [551]-553) and index.
505	0		_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 leopar men: Sierra Leone--- The positive positive women: AIDS in Afric--- Copyng King Leopold: Congo--- Not just another country: Soth Africa--- Meat and money: Eating in Kenya--- Look out world: Nigeria--- New colonists or old feriends? Asia in Africa--- Phones, Asians and the professionals: The nes Africa.
520			_aRichard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands." "For Africa is a continent, a continent of peoples. The West so often treats Africa as if it were merely one country, and its interventions therefore often misfire. Africa is complex. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truth in a way that is comprehensible to outsiders. Dowden teases out the web of history, myth, rivalry, alliance, ambition and protest that comprises present reality for the bankers of Kenya or the oilmen of Nigeria, for the judges of Congo or the herdsmen of Sudan, or even the Chinese miners in Zimbabwe. His account of their various ways and dreams is more illuminating than any number of charities' pleas or World Bank projections." "Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the unblinking scholar's grasp of historical change to produce one of the most compelling and revealing accounts of modern sub-Saharan Africa yet. His experiences there required him to re-evaluate all he had been taught to believe, and his landmark book enables its readers to see and understand this miraculous continent in a new light too.
651		0	_aAfrica _xSocial life and customs _y20th century.
651		0	_aAfrica _xSocial life and customs _y21st century.
651		0	_aAfrica _xCivilization.
651		0	_aAfrica _xHistory _y1960-
651		0	_aAfrica _xForeign relations.
651		4	_aÁfrica _xVida social y costumbres _928123 _ySiglo XX
651		4	_aAfrica _xCivilización _99225
651		4	_aAfrica _xHistoria _97945
700	1		_aAchebe, Chinua, _d1930-2013 _eprologuista _928124
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