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The Africans

Title:

The Africans

Author:

Lamb, David, 1940-2016.

ISBN:

9780394753089

Personal Author:

Lamb, David, 1940-2016.

Edition:

With a new preface and epilogue, Vintage Books ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Vintage Books, 1987.

Physical Description:

xv, 371 p. : map ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, c1982. With new preface and epilogue.

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Preface to the new edition -- Portrait of a continent -- Collison of past and present -- The men at the top -- The ghost of Idi Amin -- Coups and countercoups -- The colonial heritage -- From Lisbon with love -- Shadow from abroad -- Separate roads for two neighbors -- Culture shock -- Some of the news that is fit to print -- Survival of the fittest -- Sylis and Cedis -- Nigeria: the future is now -- Alone against the world -- Summing up and looking ahead -- Epilogue: Africa reconsidered -- A statistical profile -- Acknowledgments.

Geographic Term:

Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 1960-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random042/86040461.html

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
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Summary

During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from wars to coups oceans apart, catching midnight flights to little-known countries where supposedly decent people were doing unspeakable things to one another. In the tradition of John Gunther's Inside Africa, The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long-suffering.