num_pages: 335
description: The powerful and the powerless are here in dramatic narratives that explain a land swept up in change, lurching between an unworkable Western present and a collapsing African past. By focusing on individuals, Blaine Harden uncovers an Africa that endures behond the sum of its statistics.
language: English
title: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
titlecomplete: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
genres: Politics, History, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 125
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company