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Friday, January 14, 2011

January Highlight in the Africana Section. (Unused Book)


Africa - Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
by Richard Dowden with a Foreword by Chinua Achebe


Hardcover, 576 pages,
Published by Portobello Books Ltd

Published Price : R 367.00

Tall Stories Price : R 150.00


Richard Dowden, one of the world's leading Africa correspondents delivers, after a lifetime's close observation of the miraculous continent, a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa.Dowden has now, after 35 years on the continent, written a memoiristic history of its peoples' experiences in the wake of the European withdrawal and the superpowers' arrival. He has been present at each of the continent's major crises and writes illuminatingly about them, but he is as passionate about the warmth, wisdom and joy he has encountered in peacetime, and the diversity of habits, attitudes and purposes to which he has been Britain's best witness. His book is no less than a benchmark publication on this most misunderstood and mishandled of continents.




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a Achebe

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