Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles - Couverture rigide

Dowden, Richard

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9781586487539: Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

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ISBN 10 : 1586487531 ISBN 13 : 9781586487539

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2009

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Book by Richard Dowden

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Revue de presse :

Kirkus, February 1, 2009, STARRED review
“The director of the Royal African Society offers an ambitious, roundly informative and still intimate look at sub-Saharan Africa’s turbulent road in the modern era. ...Dowden displays a deeply felt knowledge of the recent history of sub-Sahara Africa, and his suggestions for its future are well-informed and wise. A remarkably full-bodied and frank discussion of Africa’s place in the world.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/8: featured in Spring round-up
“Dowden's been a journalist in Africa since 1971 and here explains, for Sarah Palin's benefit and ours, that the continent is actually a wide variety of nations. He gives us an in-depth tour.”

O, the Oprah Magazine, April issue
“A deeply informed and informative ‘tough love’ love letter to a continent.”

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Book Review
“We journalists tend to cover Africa in stark and simple contrasts, but countries live and grow and falter in grays. So it’s refreshing to encounter not only Dowden’s hopefulness, but also his reliance on shading and nuance, on the recognition that the world does not have to feel sorry for Africa to care about it.”

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of surprises. For the past three decades, Richard Dowden has travelled this vast and varied continent, listening, learning, and constantly re-evaluating all he thinks he knows. Country by country, he has sought out the local and the personal, the incidents, actions, and characters to tell a story of modern sub-Saharan Africa - an area affected by poverty, disease and war, but also a place of breathtaking beauty, generosity and possibility. The result is a landmark book, compelling, illuminating, and always surprising. This revised edition has an additional chapter on Ethiopia and has been updated throughout to reflect changes such as the death of Mandela and the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. It also includes two new maps and a new final chapter considering the shape of Africa's future.

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