Beyond the Malachite hills :: a life of colonial service and business in the new Africa /

What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation, the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict and even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete...

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1. Verfasser: Lawley, Jonathan (Jonathan Coldstream)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung:What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation, the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict and even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown of state and society. And all has been compounded by natural disasters - drought, famine and the scourge of AIDS. But there is another, less reported, story of Africa; throwing off the colonial past, embracing modernity, learning fast, gaining in pride and self-confidence and embracing the.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ISBN:9781441657381
144165738X
9781848850491
1848850492
9780857710895
0857710893
9780857731395
0857731394
9780755623877
0755623878
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