Africa
Subtitle: altered states, ordinary miracles
By: Richard Dowden
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781586487539
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Civilization; History
Description: Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.
Notes: Originally published: London : Portobello, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-553) and index.
Table of contents: title: Africa is a night flight away: images and realities; title: Africa is different: Uganda I; title: How it all went wrong: Uganda II; title: The end of colonialism: new states, old societies; title: Amazing, but is it Africa? Somalia; title: Forward to the past: Zimbabwe; title: Breaking apart: Sudan; title: A tick bigger than the dog: Angola; title: Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda; title: God, trust and trade: Senegal; title: Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone; title: The positive positive women: AIDS in Africa; title: Copying King Leopold: Congo; title: Not just another country: South Africa; title: Meat and money: eating in Kenya; title: Look out world: Nigeria; title: New colonists or old friends? Asia in Africa; title: Phones, Asians and the professionals: the new Africa.