Continental Shift A Journey in Africa's Changing Fortunes

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Synopsis

Africa is failing. Africa is succeeding. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year road trip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia’s middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China’s investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; and from the birth of Africa’s newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa. Part detective story, part report from this economic frontier, Continental Shift follows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent. ‘In the aftermath of this book, approaches to China, Africa and international relations will never be the same’ - Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

Book details

Author:
Kevin Bloom, Richard Poplak
ISBN:
9781868424290
Related ISBNs:
9781868424283
Publisher:
Jonathan Ball Publishers
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-04-25
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2016
Copyright by:
Kevin Bloom, Richard Poplak 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government