The rift: a new Africa breaks free
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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
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xiv, 432 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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A vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.
Africa has long been misunderstood — and abused — by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds.
Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, The Rift passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.
Africa has long been misunderstood — and abused — by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds.
Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, The Rift passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.
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First North American edition.
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English
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9780316333771
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Perry, A. (2015). The rift: a new Africa breaks free. First North American edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Perry, Alex. 2015. The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free. New York, Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Perry, Alex, The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Perry, Alex. The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free. First North American edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
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