Africa's Moment, 1st Edition
$43.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2013
Summary
Translated by David Fernbach
The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and monotheist. If poverty and violence are still rampant, economic growth has taken off again and a middle class is developing. Africa will hold a central place in the big issues facing the world today. If it once made a ‘false start’, here it is back again -…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745651583 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745651585 |
| Author: | Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“A wake-up call. Its message is simple: look out world, here comes Africa.”
Wall Street Journal
“Clearly conceived, cleanly structured, tightly written and lucidly expressed. A highly readable text.”
European Voice
“Their optimistic analysis of the continent and its inhabitants should be read by all who are interested in looking at Africa with a fresh and different perspective.”
African Security Review
“A significant book for those interested in questions of economic and cultural change.”
The Age
“Africa’s Moment has the great value of underlining that Africa’s future is indeed in the hands of Africans.”
South World
“A timely and positive assessment of Africa’s prospects founded upon deep understanding and a distinctive perspective.”
Paul Collier, University of Oxford
“The West is wedded to a retrograde vision of Africa’s past and know nothing of its present, even less of its future. This unprecedented book forces revision of that outlook by addressing a world, just a few decades from now, where one in four human beings will be African.”
Keith Hart, University of London
Jean-Michel Severino
JEAN-MICHEL SEVERINO was formerly CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and has worked at the World Bank as Director for Central Europe.
OLIVIER RAY currently works at AFD. Previously, he worked for the United Nation’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Security Council Report, on questions of development, conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery.
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