AFRICA'S MOMENT SEVERINO J-M. RAY O. Księgarnia

The 21st century will be the century of Africa.

This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and monotheist. If poverty and violence are still rampant, economic growth has taken off again and a middle class is developing. Africa will hold a central place in the big issues facing the world today. If it once made a ‘false start’, here it is back again – in the fast lane.

The West has missed the turnaround of a continent that will no longer wait for us. How can we best understand it? Demography, economics, politics, diplomacy, cultures and religions – this book presents the different facets of this new Africa, which will soon have a billion people, at the mid point of the most rapid population boom that humanity has ever known. Without ignoring the risks of its metamorphosis, it brings to light the forces and hopes that Africa harbors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Paul Collier
Introduction
Part One: The Peopling of a Continent
Chapter 1: Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
Chapter 2: Malthus on CNN
Part Two: Africa on the Move
Chapter 3: A Black Peril?
Chapter 4: Crowded Roads
Part Three: Africa Versus Growth
Chapter 5: The Undiscoverable Curse
Chapter 6: The Great Wheel of Growth
Part Four: When Africa Awakes
Chapter 7: The Great Clean-Up
Chapter 8: Emerging Africa
Part Five: God's Africa
Chapter 9: Urban Compositions
Chapter 10: Crescent and Cross
Chapter 11: Switched-On Africa
Chapter 12: The End of Ethnicity
Chapter 13: African Democracy
Part Six: One March, Three Directions
Chapter 14: Countries of Rent, Countries in Danger
Chapter 15: The Vanguard of Development
Chapter 16: Fragile Africa: One Crisis After Another
Part Seven: Africa, The World's Vitality
Chapter 17: The End of Infinity
Chapter 18: Light Against Darkness
Chapter 19: The Hunger for Land
Chapter 20: The Struggle for Man
Part Eight: The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations
Chapter 21: Africa Courted
Chapter 22: Emerging Powers: Africa's New Exploiters?
Chapter 23: Acknowledging Africa
Conclusion
Maps
Notes
Index

352 pages, Hardcover

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