The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.
Africa has long been misunderstood—and abused—by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds.
Read more
Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, THE RIFT passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.
Liked The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa Shares africa, nonfiction, african history -
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles Shares africa, nonfiction, history -
Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present Shares africa, nonfiction, african history -
The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need-to-Know Skills and Strategies for Biking in the City Shares nonfiction
“People who read The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (history about politics), start with these.”
-
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
-
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
-
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
-
The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future. Robert Guest
