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.

• Author
• Alex Perry

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 448

• Publisher
• Little, Brown and Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-316-33377-1

• EAN
• 9780316333771

• Genres
• africa, history, politics, cultural, sudan, rwanda, kenya, mali, ethiopia

• Release date
• 2015