Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles, Richard Dowden

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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles, Richard Dowden

Title remainder

altered states, ordinary miracles

Statement of responsibility

Richard Dowden

Instantiates

• Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles

Publication

• New York, Public Affairs, 2009

Copyright

• ©2009

Note

First published: London : Portobello, 2008

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-553) and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Africa is a night flight away: images and realities -- Africa is different: Uganda I -- How it all went wrong: Uganda II -- The end of colonialism: new states, old societies -- Amazing, but is it Africa? Somalia -- Forward to the past: Zimbabwe -- Breaking apart: Sudan -- A tick bigger than the dog: Angola -- Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- God, trust and trade: Senegal -- Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone -- The positive women: AIDS in Africa -- Copying King Leopold: Congo -- Not just another country: South Africa -- Meat and money: eating in Kenya -- Look out world: Nigeria -- New colonists or old friends? Asia in Africa -- Phones, Asians and the professionals: the new Africa

Dimensions

25 cm

Edition

First edition.

Extent

xiv, 576 pages

Isbn

9781586487539

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(hbk.)

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2008940270

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unmediated

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• n

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497875

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• ocn291344950
• 497875