Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.
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Colin Legum now lives in Cape Town, his original home, from which he was for many years banned under apartheid. He is the author of numerous books, including Pan-Africanism: A Brief History and South Africa: Crisis for the West (with Margaret Legum). He was the founder of the African Contemporary Record and edited twenty- three volumes of this publication. He was also co-editor of The Middle East Survey.
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Africa has passed through three phases in its learning cycle since independence: the innocence of inexperience and the euphoria of the early romantic period; the disillusioning experience of adolescents (in this case, young nations) growing up in an adverse environment; and, finally, coming to terms with reality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, Kwame Nkrumah, West Africa, Cold War, World War, Julius Nyerere, Organization of African Unity, Tom Mboya, Latin America, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Sierra Leone, Third World, United Nations, False Start, Gold Coast, Industrial Revolution, Moise Tshombe, René Dumont New!
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Africa has passed through three phases in its learning cycle since independence: the innocence of inexperience and the euphoria of the early romantic period; the disillusioning experience of adolescents (in this case, young nations) growing up in an adverse environment; and, finally, coming to terms with reality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, Kwame Nkrumah, West Africa, Cold War, World War, Julius Nyerere, Organization of African Unity, Tom Mboya, Latin America, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Sierra Leone, Third World, United Nations, False Start, Gold Coast, Industrial Revolution, Moise Tshombe, René Dumont New!
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- False Start in Africa by Rene Dumont on 4 pages
- False Dawn by John Gray in Back Matter
- Langston Hughes (Black Americans of Achievement) by Jack Rummel on page 22
- Issues in African Development: Essays in Honour of Adebayoadedeji at 65 (Igbo Life and Culture Series, 1) by Bade Onimode in Back Matter
- Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta on page 27
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- Pan-Africanism: The Idea and Movement, 1776-1991 by P. Olisanwuche Esedebe in Back Matter
- Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics (African Expressive Cultures) by Tejumola Olaniyan in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Neil Lazarus in Back Matter
- Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? by World Bank in Back Matter
- A History of Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert O. Collins on page 376
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