Alex Perry

The Rift

A New Africa Breaks Free

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Produktbeschreibung

A vivid and provocative look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing us to think again - updated with a new preface for the paperback

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / W&N
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781780226859
• ISBN-10: 1780226853
• Artikelnr.: 44806710

Autorenporträt

Alex Perry is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 30 wars, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. He was TIME magazine's bureau chief in Africa until 2013 and writes for a number of publications including NEWSWEEK, for which he is a contributing editor. He is the author of THE GOOD MOTHERS, THE RIFT: A NEW AFRICA BREAKS FREE, FALLING OFF THE EDGE: GLOBALISATION, WORLD PEACE AND OTHER LIES and LIFEBLOOD: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE DEAD MOSQUITO AT A TIME, as well as several ebooks on Africa, the Europe and the Middle East. He is also the co-author of LONG SHOT: MY LIFE AS A SNIPER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS with Azad Cudi.

Rezensionen

An epic, rich, endlessly surprising narrative of a fast-changing Africa by one of the few Western journalists to have spent enough time there to understand it. Calls to mind the best African writing of Ryszard Kapuscinski Douglas Rogers author of THE LAST RESORT