Dowden Richard:
Africa
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Portobello Books Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 448 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9781846271557
ISBN-10: 184627155X
List price: £9.99
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Africa
Richard Dowden has now, after 35 years on the African continent, written a history of its people's experiences in the wake of the European withdrawal and the superpowers' arrival. He has been present at each of the continent's major crises and writes illuminatingly about them, but he is as passionate about the warmth, wisdom and joy he has encountered in peacetime, and the diversity of habits, attitudes and purposes to which he has been Britain's best witness. This book is no less than a benchmark publication on this most misunderstood and mishandled of continents.

