num_pages: 448
description: The finest living Africa correspondent delivers after a lifetime's close observation of the miraculous continent a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa.Dowden has now after 35 years on the continent written a memoiristic history of its peoples' experiences in the wake of the European withdrawal and the superpowers' arrival. He has been present at each of the continent's major crises and writes illuminatingly about them but he is as passionate about the warmth wisdom and joy he has encountered in peacetime and the diversity of habits attitudes and purposes to which he has been Britain's best witness. His book is no less than a benchmark publication on this most misunderstood and mishandled of continents.
language: None
title: Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
publisher: Portobello Books