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Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and
break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five
countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty,
you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of surprises.
For the past three decades, Richard Dowden has travelled this vast
and varied continent, listening, learning, and constantly
re-evaluating all he thinks he knows. Country by country, he has
sought out the local and the personal, the incidents, actions, and
characters to tell a story of modern sub-Saharan Africa - an area
affected by poverty, disease and war, but also a place of
breathtaking beauty, generosity and possibility. The result is a
landmark book, compelling, illuminating, and always surprising.
Updated for 2018, Africa remains one of the most comprehensive,
intelligent and responsive works on the continent ever written.
After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the
world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on
life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant,
experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths.
Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's
grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce
in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes
the impact of oil and the internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and
examines what has gone so badly wrong in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi,
and the Congo. Dowden's master work is an attempt to explain why
Africa is the way it is, and enables its readers to see and
understand this miraculous continent as a place of inspiration and
tremendous humanity.
Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves
non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they
are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children
registered at birth or entered in school or university; they cannot
access state health services; they cannot obtain travel documents,
or employment without a work permit; and if they leave the country
they may not be able to return. Most of all, they cannot vote,
stand for office, or work for state institutions. Ultimately such
policies can lead to economic and political disaster, or even war.
The conflicts in both Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of
Congo have had at their hearts the very right of one part of the
national population to share with others on equal terms the rights
and duties of citizenship. This book brings together new material
from across Africa of the most egregious examples of citizenship
discrimination, and makes the case for urgent reform of the law.
Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves
non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they
are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children
registered at birth or entered in school or university; they cannot
access state health services; they cannot obtain travel documents,
or employment without a work permit; and if they leave the country
they may not be able to return. Most of all, they cannot vote,
stand for office, or work for state institutions. Ultimately such
policies can lead to economic and political disaster, or even war.
The conflicts in both Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of
Congo have had at their hearts the very right of one part of the
national population to share with others on equal terms the rights
and duties of citizenship. This book brings together new material
from across Africa of the most egregious examples of citizenship
discrimination, and makes the case for urgent reform of the law.
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