The rift : a new Africa breaks free
Perry, Alex2017
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Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis, among many others. Opening with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion.
Main title:
The rift : a new Africa breaks free / Alex Perry.
Author:
Perry, Alex, author
Edition:
[New] edition.
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [2017]
Collation:
xxiv, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781780226859 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
960.33
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1830895
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