The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free

by Alex Perry

Book Overview

A vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.

Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316333778
• ISBN13: 9780316333771
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"