Suffering and smiling: a diagnosis of African impoverishment
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | X, 539 S. Ill. 23cm |
| ISBN: | 9780761843511 0761843515 |
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| adam_text | Table
of
Contents
ACRONYMS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
1:
A CONTINENTAL MEDICAL CRISIS
7
Diagnosing a Continent
15
2:
THE CHIEF COMPLAINT:
IMPOVERISHMENT
19
Economic Marginalization
20
Trade, Aid, Debt and Development:
26
The Locus of Control
26
Foreign Aid Flows
27
NGO s and Debt Relief
29
Fair Trade? The Banana War
32
3:
WHAT IS AFRICA?
A CONTINENTAL PROFILE
49
European Misperceptions and Prescriptions
51
Traditional African Spirituality
52
Ancestral Worship
56
Traditional Medicine
57
The Home of Human Language
58
Traditional Political Systems
61
4:
THE MAJOR MALADIES
67
Malaria
69
Bird Flu
77
Cholera
78
Dengue Fever, Diarrhea
&
Diphtheria
81
Meningitis
82
African Trypanosomiasis or Sleeping Sickness
83
Yellow Fever
87
5:
HIV+ AFRICA
93
HIV
Politics
94
HIV+ Mozambique
99
HIV+ Nigeria
100
HIV+ South Africa
101
HIV+Uganda
102
HIV+ Zambia
&
Zimbabwe
103
6:
A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS
The Atlantic Slave Trade
109
Colonialism
115
IV
Resistance &
Liberation
124
PART II: PATIENT EXAMINATIONS
136
7:
THE DRC: A DIARRHEATIC STATE
137
Mobutu
141
The Kabila Regimes: Contagious Conflicts
146
8:
THE WAR-TRAUMATIZED
CÔTE D IVOIRE
167
The Political-Economy of Cocoa
169
Neo-Colonial
War
171
9:
KENYA: CANCEROUS CORRUPTION
&
POISONOUS POLITICS
179
The Uhuru Revolt
180
Kenyan Women s Rights
189
Prosperity For The Few
193
10:
LIBERIA:
POLITICAL SCHIZOPHRENIA
199
Samuel K. Doe
200
Charles Taylor
202
11:
NIGERIA: ADMINISTRATIVE SCLEROSIS
219
Olesegun Obasanjo
220
Administrative Sclerosis
223
Come and Eat Politics
226
Petro-Politics
237
War in the Delta
239
Election Allergies
255
12:
RWANDA:
MASS PSYCHOSIS
&
GENOCIDE
267
Under the Tree Justice
270
13:
SIERRA LEONE:
COMPROMISED
AUTO-IMMUNITY
279
Outsourcing Security
281
Blood Diamonds
287
The Chinese Prescription
289
14:
SOUTH AFRICA S
MIXED PROGNOSIS
293
Apartheid South Africa
296
The New South Africa
305
Jacob
Zuma
314
Myriad Challenges
317
15:
UGANDA:
PSYCHOTIC LEADERSHIP
325
War Crimes
327
Peace or Justice?
333
16:
ZIMBABWE:
STARVING TO VOTE
341
The Mugabe Regime
344
Morgan Tsvangirai
356
Economic Hypertension
360
17:
DEATH MERCHANTS
373
18:
THE HEENT EXAMINATION
383
Eyes and Ears: The Media
384
19:
EDUCATION:
THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
389
Colonial Education
389
A Hunger For Learning
394
20:
NUTRITION:
THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM:
401
Water and Climate Change
413
21:
THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM:
INERT RESOURCE USAGE
419
Diamonds
419
Gold
&
Platinum
425
22:
AUTO-IMMUNE SYSTEMS:
THE MILITARY AND POLICE
435
From The OAU to the African Union
436
Protecting Human Rights
446
War Crimes
448
23:
THE SKELETAL SYSTEM:
INFRASTRUCTURE
461
A Pathological Fracture
462
Surface Transportation
464
Rail Travel
466
Air Travel
467
The Ports
472
Telecommunications
:
CROSSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
473
Internet Access
476
24:
THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM:
485
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
485
The Problem With Parties
488
25:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE
493
Metaneeds
&
Metapathologies:
495
The Locus of Control
495
The Psychology of Corruption
498
African Perceptions of Globalization
501
African Views of the US
502
26:
DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS
&
TREATMENT
507
Western Prescriptions
508
Phineas Gage s Story
511
Culturally Compatible Democracy?
514
The Differential Diagnosis
517
TREATMENT
518
BIBLIOGRAPHY
523
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
541
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