AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

by Daniel Jordan Smith

Book Overview

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, using AIDS as a lens through which to view Africa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022610883X
• ISBN13: 9780226108834
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"