Shackled Continent Power, Corruption, and African Lives

Name: Shackled Continent Power, Corruption, and African Lives
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ISBN: 9781588342973

ISBN-10: 1588342972

ISBN-13: 9781588342973

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Authors: Robert Guest

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A former Africa editor forThe Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years,The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic. Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that cripple so many African nations, posing a provocative theory that Africans have been impoverished largely by their own leaders' abuses of power. From the minefields of Angola to the barren wheat fields of Zimbabwe, Guest gathers startling evidence of the misery African leaders have inflicted on their…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 9/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Why Is Africa So Poor?



The Vampire State



Digging Diamonds, Digging Graves



No Title



Sex and Death



The Son of a Snake is a Snake



Fair Aid, Free Trade



Of Potholes and Grasping Gendarmes



Wiring the Wilderness



Beyond the Rainbow Nation


Conclusion: One Step at a Time


Epilogue


Notes


Index