![]() ![]() The sum of Africa's misfortunes - its wars, its despotisms, its corruption, its droughts - is truly daunting. Most African countries are effectively bankrupt, prone to civil strife, subject to dictatorial rule, and dependent on Western assistance for survival. Today, Africa is a continent rife with disease, death, and devastation. At a university with the motto 'Connecting the Mind to What Matters,' this really counts. ![]() It is far and away the best and most important book I have read in the last year and has opened up much wider reading and interest about what I believe matters most. So when the book The Fate of Africa by the well-informed commentator, Martin Meredith, came along and I saw that it was a history of fifty years of independence, I decided this was where I needed to start to lay a solid foundation of knowledge of the people of the forgotten continent. I have long felt that the people of Africa deserve our attention more than any other people. ![]() Africa has for so long a time been marginalized and of little strategic interest to us. 2005 was supposed to be ‘The Year of Africa’ but other world news didn't allow that to happen. ![]()
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