Dowden, Richard. <br/><br/>
Africa :  altered states, ordinary miracles / 
 Africa 
Richard Dowden. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Public Affairs,  2009. 
 - xiv, 576 p :  maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> First published: London : Portobello, 2008. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-553) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> In captivating prose, Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781586487539 9781586487539 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008940270 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Civilization.<br/>Africa--History--1960-.<br/>Africa--Social life and customs--20th century.<br/>Africa--Social life and customs--21st century.<br/>Afrique--Conditions sociales--1960-.<br/>Afrique--Histoire--1960-.<br/>Afrique--Politique et gouvernement--1960-.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT14  / .D69 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>960.3/2 960.3/2 960.32 DOW 960.32