The Rift: A new Africa Breaks Free [Audiobook] download free by Alex Perry
- Listen audiobook: The Rift: A new Africa Breaks Free
- Author: Alex Perry
- Release date: 2017/4/10
- Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9781780226859
- Rating: 7.09 of 10
- Votes: 542
- Review by: Lainey Bunting
- Review rating: 9 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 5H32M34S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Apple Lossless, FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, WAV (compression RAR, DEB, TAR.GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 53 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 38M22S (10.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis, among many others.Opening with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. This is a remade continent, defiantly rising from centuries of oppression to become an economic and political titan: where cash is becoming a thing of the past, where astronomers are unlocking the origin of life and where, twenty-five years after Live Aid, Ethiopia's first yuppies are traders on an electronic food exchange. Yet, as Africa finally wins the substance of its freedom, it must confront the three last false prophets of Islamists, dictators and aid workers, who would keep it in its bonds.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Politics & Government, Political Economy, African History, 21st Century History: From C 2000 -
- Download servers: BitShare, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, 4Shared, S42Transfer, Uploaded, Seafile, MEGA. Compressed in RAR, DEB, TAR.GZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.05 USD
- Dimensions: 131x198x35mm
- Weight: 370g
- Printed by: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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