The Rift : a new Africa breaks free
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The Rift : a new Africa breaks free
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The work The Rift : a new Africa breaks free represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The Rift : a new Africa breaks free
- Title remainder
- a new Africa breaks free
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Perry
- Subject
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- 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
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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