The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free

A vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.

Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds.

Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, The Rift passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 11/17/2015
ISBN: 9780316333771
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/14/2015
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Library Journal 11/15/2015 pg. 98
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/02/2015 pg. 43
Shelf Awareness 12/18/2015