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Africa's moment / Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray ; translated by David Fernbach.
Publication details: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2011.Description: xv, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780745651576 :
- 0745651577 :
- Temps de l'Afrique. English
- HC800.A1 S4813 2011
Contents:
Introduction ---- Part One: The Peopling of a Continent. Chapter 1: Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? --- Chapter 2: Malthus on CNN ---- Part Two: Africa on the Move. Chapter 3: A Black Peril? --- Chapter 4: Crowded Roads ---- Part Three: Africa Versus Growth. Chapter 5: The Undiscoverable Curse --- Chapter 6: The Great Wheel of Growth ---- Part Four: When Africa Awakes. Chapter 7: The Great Clean-Up --- Chapter 8: Emerging Africa ---- Part Five: God's Africa. Chapter 9: Urban Compositions --- Chapter 10: Crescent and Cross --- Chapter 11: Switched-On Africa --- Chapter 12: The End of Ethnicity --- Chapter 13: African Democracy ---- Part Six: One March, Three Directions. Chapter 14: Countries of Rent, Countries in Danger --- Chapter 15: The Vanguard of Development --- Chapter 16: Fragile Africa: One Crisis After Another ---- Part Seven: Africa, The World's Vitality. Chapter 17: The End of Infinity --- Chapter 18: Light Against Darkness --- Chapter 19: The Hunger for Land --- Chapter 20: The Struggle for Man ---- Part Eight: The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations. Chapter 21: Africa Courted --- Chapter 22: Emerging Powers: Africa's New Exploiters? --- Chapter 23: Acknowledging Africa ---- Conclusion.
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Originally published in French as Le temps de l'Afrique, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-300) and index.
Introduction ---- Part One: The Peopling of a Continent. Chapter 1: Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? --- Chapter 2: Malthus on CNN ---- Part Two: Africa on the Move. Chapter 3: A Black Peril? --- Chapter 4: Crowded Roads ---- Part Three: Africa Versus Growth. Chapter 5: The Undiscoverable Curse --- Chapter 6: The Great Wheel of Growth ---- Part Four: When Africa Awakes. Chapter 7: The Great Clean-Up --- Chapter 8: Emerging Africa ---- Part Five: God's Africa. Chapter 9: Urban Compositions --- Chapter 10: Crescent and Cross --- Chapter 11: Switched-On Africa --- Chapter 12: The End of Ethnicity --- Chapter 13: African Democracy ---- Part Six: One March, Three Directions. Chapter 14: Countries of Rent, Countries in Danger --- Chapter 15: The Vanguard of Development --- Chapter 16: Fragile Africa: One Crisis After Another ---- Part Seven: Africa, The World's Vitality. Chapter 17: The End of Infinity --- Chapter 18: Light Against Darkness --- Chapter 19: The Hunger for Land --- Chapter 20: The Struggle for Man ---- Part Eight: The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations. Chapter 21: Africa Courted --- Chapter 22: Emerging Powers: Africa's New Exploiters? --- Chapter 23: Acknowledging Africa ---- Conclusion.
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