Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor

By E. Wayne Nafziger

Because of the population growth in Africa, maintaining past trends means degrading human dignity for the majority, with a rural population surviving on intolerable toil, disastrous land scarcity, and worsening urban crisis, with more shanty towns, congested roads, unemployed, beggars, crime, and misery alongside the few unashamedly demonstrating greater conspicuous consumption, shopping at national department stores fill with luxury imports.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521317037
• ISBN13: 9780521317030
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"