This edition of Lamb's acclaimed 1983 book on sub-Saharan Africa contains an epilogue that covers events up to 1987 and includes a report on the author's visit to Ethiopia during the famine of the mid-1980s. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long-suffering.
Contents Preface to the New Edition Portrait of a Continent Collision of Past and Present The Men at the Top The Ghost of Idi Amin In Search of Unity Coups and Countercoups The Colonial Heritage From Lisbon with Love Shadow from Abroad Separate Roads for Two Neighbors Culture Shock Some of the News That is Fit to Print Survival of the Fittest Sylis and Cedis Nigeria: The Future is Now Alone Against the World Summing Up and Looking Ahead Epilogue: Africa Reconsidered
David Lamb is an eight-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who has traveled the world for 25 years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent. He is the author of six widely praised books.
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This edition of Lamb's acclaimed 1983 book on sub-Saharan Africa contains an epilogue that covers events up to 1987 and includes a report on the author's visit to Ethiopia during the famine of the mid-1980s. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long-suffering.
Contents Preface to the New Edition Portrait of a Continent Collision of Past and Present The Men at the Top The Ghost of Idi Amin In Search of Unity Coups and Countercoups The Colonial Heritage From Lisbon with Love Shadow from Abroad Separate Roads for Two Neighbors Culture Shock Some of the News That is Fit to Print Survival of the Fittest Sylis and Cedis Nigeria: The Future is Now Alone Against the World Summing Up and Looking Ahead Epilogue: Africa Reconsidered
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David Lamb is an eight-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who has traveled the world for 25 years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent. He is the author of six widely praised books.
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