- Hardcover: 333 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (18 April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002158892
- ISBN-13: 978-0002158893
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,035,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘The best contemporary book on Africa.’ Richard Dowden, Independent
‘This is an extraordinary and frightening book. Blaine Harden evokes with passion, argument , and fabulous stories the destruction of Africa. He is a superb reporter and writer.’ William Shawcross
‘Harden’s “dispatches” peel back the traditional mystique of the so-called “dark continent” and identify enduring African values of family, religion and fellowship. Authoritative, entertaining and mercifully free of giraffes and safari suits.’ Observer
‘An outstanding account of the complexities of the fragile continent. Few writers can match harden’s insights into the continent’s malaise.’ Financial Times
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Product 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.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Read this and you will feel as though you have lived in Africa. Blaine Harden's commentary manages to combine the complexity of the competing African political, economic, social, and tribal influences; Harden never generalises or simplifies, yet his journalistic style manages to convey the most complex of issues in accessible and seemingly simple terms. Moreover, despite often bleak subject matter, Harden's humour made me laugh out loud many times while reading. Best of all, Harden leaves one to draw one's own conclusions, raising issues but not forcing judgement or conclusion. One of the best books, of any genre, that I have ever read. I cannot recommend this highly enough.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Blaine harden traveled for four years in Africa working as a journalist for the Washington Post. He combines travelogue writing with essays on the culture, history and contemporary issues of Africa. He is concerned with society, the people and the environment. The writing is concise, clear and moving and gives real insight into a world which is unknown to most. Highly recommended.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an amazing book. Having been a teenager in Kenya at the time that Harden focuses on, it was very interesting to read Harden's analyis of the S M Otieno case and the plight of International Aid in Turkana. He has alluded to intervention by the Kenya government at various points in the book, this appears to be somewhat unsubstantiated. I would have liked to read more discussion of why he says what he has. That would have given, what currently appear to be conspiration theories, some concrete basis.
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