The Fate of Africa
Subtitle: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: June 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9781586483982
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political History; Africa - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Sociology - General; Africa - General; Government - General; 1960-; Africa; Economic conditions; Politics and government; Social conditions
First sentence: At his headquarters at Christiansborg Castle, a seventeenth-century slaving fort from where British governors had ruled the Gold Coast for fifty years, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke awoke on the morning of 9 February 1951 to face the most difficult decision of his career.