Africa

A Continent Self-Destructs

By: P. Schwab

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Paperback | 11 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Can Africa survive? Many of the nations of sub-Saharan African have all but ceased to exist as organized states: tyranny, diseases such as AIDS, civil war and ethnic conflict--and border invasions threaten the complete disintegration of a region. Peter Schwab offers a clear, authoritative portrait of a continent on the brink. Globalization and an accompanying level of economic health have passed over Africa. Added to these factors is a patronizing attitude from the West that change in Africa must take place within Western parameters, a UN that lacks any real power, and a US foreign policy in Africa that is unclear. Looking to South Africa as an example of successful Western support of an African nation, Schwab suggests that the US should use its leverage to help democrats into positions of power and then work with them under a framework dictated by the leaders themselves. It is only with a distinctly African approach to African problems that the survival of the continent can be assured.

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'Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries' circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis.' - Publishers Weekly

'Peter Schwab has written this book with courage, honesty, and enormous insight, as well as with a deep sense of humanity. For anyone interested in the reality of Africa, this is the book to read.' - Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia, 1990-1994

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map of Africa	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Slave Trade, Colonialism, and the Cold War	p. 9
Civil Wars, Wars, and Political Collapse	p. 29
Whither Human Rights?	p. 63
African Poverty and the AIDS Crisis	p. 97
Globalization and Africa	p. 119
Will Africa Survive?	p. 141
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 201
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