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Africa:altered states, ordinary miracles/ Richard Dowden.

Physical description: xiv, 576 pages 20 cm;
Bibliographic notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-553) and index.;
General notes: Originally published: London : Portobello, 2008.;
Edition: First edition.;
Author(s): DOWDEN, Richard;
ISBN: 9781846271557 (pbk.;
Subjects: Manners and customs.;
Africa --Social life and customs --20th century.; Africa --Social life and customs --21st century.; Africa --Civilization.; Africa --History --1960;
History.fastOCoLC)fst01411628;
Formatted contents notes: 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 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.;
Summary notes: 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.;
Call number: 960.32 DOW;
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24510$aAfrica$baltered states, ordinary miracles$cRichard Dowden.
250 $aFirst edition.
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300 $axiv, 576 pages$c20 cm
500 $aOriginally published: London : Portobello, 2008.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 551-553) and index.
5050 $aAfrica 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 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.
520 $aDowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.
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650 7$aManners and customs.
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651 0$aAfrica$xSocial life and customs$y21st century.
651 0$aAfrica$xCivilization.
651 0$aAfrica$xHistory$y1960
655 7$aHistory.$2fast$0OCoLC)fst01411628

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