The Rift : a new Africa breaks free

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Label

The Rift : a new Africa breaks free

Title remainder

a new Africa breaks free

Statement of responsibility

Alex Perry

Creator

• truePerry, Alex

Author

• truePerry, Alex

Subject

• trueAfrica -- Politics and government
• trueAfrica -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• Africa -- Forecasting -- 21st century
• trueAfrica -- Economic conditions
• trueAfrica -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• trueAfrica -- Social conditions
• trueAfrica -- History
• trueAfrica -- Social conditions -- 21st century

Language

eng

Summary

Alex Perry's lyrical exploration of the new Africa came about after a spell in jail, visits to numerous wars and, eventually, his resignation as a news correspondent. But this is no tale of African woe. Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. He uncovers a place that is defiantly rising from centuries of oppression to become an economic and political titan: where cash is becoming a thing of the past, where astronomers are unlocking the origin of life and where, twenty-five years after Live Aid, Ethiopia's first yuppies are traders on an electronic food exchange

Cataloging source

NLIVL

Dewey number

960

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult