Thanks to whoever it was last year who said I should read it! <3
Me, I strongly suspect. Since I read it about a year ago and posted saying it was a really worthwile, depressing, read.
If you get the chance, you should read Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden (first went to Africa around 1970 as a teacher in Uganda and is now head of the Royal African Society). It is more personal and more positive for Africa's future, I think. It makes a really good companion book to The State of Africa.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
If you're ever looking for a great book summarising post-colonial Africa,
- 07/02/2010 11:35:01 PM
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Nice. How much knowledge of colonial Africa does it require? *NM*
- 08/02/2010 04:30:53 AM
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- 08/02/2010 01:59:13 PM
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