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    <body><![CDATA[A smaller read than Martin Meredith's Fate of Africa. This book is similar in many ways.I'd recommend it for someone who wants to learn about Africa but not invest a long time in reading. Very readible for a history book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for a class, but loved it so much I didn't sell it back. It's about the struggle of life in Africa.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With the Congo being in the news again, I am so glad I read this book.  Not only was it highly readable -- but now I feel like I have a way better understanding of what is happening in some parts of Africa.  He is not offering a lot of solutions -- and in Africa history does have a way of repeating ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34263703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find most nonfiction about Africa to be difficult for me to get through, not because they aren't interesting or written well, but because there are just so many names and things happening and countries involved -- so much to absorb and keep track of. This one, thus, was also a slower read for me, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49647638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent record of West Africa in the 1990s. Very depressing and very well written - it is not difficult to read at all. Shocking to realise what I have lived through and basically not been aware of. And yet again how the developed countries' (this book focuses mainly on the US) foreign policies ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17523334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too anecdotal, considering the incredibly self-important title.  Interesting stories of his experience as a journalist in Congo and Cote D'Ivoire but he overgeneralizes on what he sees as the problems that constrain African development and backs those points up with specific and sometimes isolated i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8197640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle suggested (to me) that the book would present relatively equal measures of tragedy and hope. But true to reality, the overwhelming sadness of current affairs dominates the narrative. The author is justifiably and effectively angry. The hope lives in actions taken after reading this. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by an African American. Discusses many different African countries. Is very critical of author Phillip Gourevitch, who wrote a book about Rwanda. I found parts hard to understand, maybe because it took me so long to read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A journalist reviews his experiences writing about Africa for the New York Times.  It's not quite enough.  But what book about Africa ever is?  Kapucinsky's book (Shadow of the Sun) on my list satisfied me more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle sounds touchy-feely, but this book is anything but.  Incredibly insightful, eye-opening, depressing.  A good companion to Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I wrote a book about Africa (at least the parts I've seen), I would describe it like he does.  A story written by a man who loves Africa.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this some time ago, learned quite a bit about a handful of countries in Africa.]]></body>
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