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The Rift - A New Africa Breaks Free (Paperback)
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The Rift - A New Africa Breaks Free (Paperback)
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Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will
eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex 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, among many others. Opening with
a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime in
Somalia in 2011, he finds Africa at a moment of furious
self-assertion. This is a remade continent, 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. Yet, as Africa finally wins the substance of its
freedom, it must confront the three last false prophets of
Islamists, dictators and aid workers, who would keep it in its
bonds.
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