Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

ISBN-13: 9780520078819 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 448 str.

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; David Maisel

Opis

This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major themes--population, political power, the peasantry, and the new growth of the cities--Coquery-Vidrovitch demonstrates the need to recognize the extremely complex heritage of African societies if one is to understand the present or act upon the future of the continent.