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050 4 $aHC800$b.B56 2016
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100 1 $aBloom, Kevin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aContinental shift :$ba journey into Africa's changing fortunes /$cKevin Bloom & Richard Poplak.
264 1 $aJohannesburg :$bJonathan Ball,$c2016.
300 $a419 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOutside, in -- Namibia: tending the shoots of a new middle class -- Botswana: how the builders of the Three Gorges Dam tested an African anomaly -- Zimbabwe: hall of mirrors -- Nigeria: things fall together: Nollywood's simple secret -- Democratic Republic of the Congo: gold into lead into gold: the alchemy of war, reformulated -- Ethiopia: food security & the all-seeing eye -- South Sudan: the newborn: realpolitik in the world's newest country -- Central African Republic: the republic of nowhere & the limits of the nation state -- Inside, out.
520 $aAFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year roadtrip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia's middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China's investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; and from the birth of Africa's newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa. Part detective story, part report from this economic frontier, Continental Shift follows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent.
651 0 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government$y1960-
651 0 $aAfrica$xEconomic conditions$y1960-
651 0 $aAfrica$xDescription and travel.
650 7 $aEconomic history.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650 7 $aPolitics and government.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919741
650 7 $aTravel.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01155558
651 7 $aAfrica.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239509
648 7 $aSince 1960$2fast
700 1 $aPoplak, Richard,$d1973-$eauthor.
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