Africa
Subtitle: postcolonial conflict
By: David Downing.
Series: Troubled world
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Juvenile literature.; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Juvenile literature.; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Describes political, economic, religious, and other problems which plague the entire continent of Africa today, and their sources in European colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [61]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Troubled continent; title: Turning point : independence; title: The Muslim-Christian divide; title: Victims of the Cold War : the Horn of Africa; title: Victims of the Cold War : Angola; title: Thieves and murderers; title: Turning point : 1970's - oil price rise; title: West African civil wars; title: Turning point: genocide in Rwanda; title: Africa's "great war"; title: Independence : 40 years later; title: Three leaders; title: The Western media and Africa; title: Turning point: 2002 - year of peace?; title: Prospects.