num_pages: 448
description: 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 250000 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.
language: English
title: The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free
publisher: Little, Brown and Company