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Category: Nonfiction
Publication Date: 1993-08-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Page Count: 464
A series of set-pieces that graphically illustrate--but less successfully illuminate--the terrible tangle of ancient legacies and contemporary politics that threaten Africa. Harding (a British journalist who's both traveled and lived in Africa) writes about six very disparate and far-flung countries that share a common challenge of having to make themselves anew in the post-cold-war world: countries like Mozambique and Angola, which must not only restructure their economies to meet...