What is happening on the continent of Africa? What are its images? The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the President of the Republic of South Africa. A pile of discarded machetes, their blades broken off, on a road in Rwanda. A hot, still election day in Angola, ending a seventeen-year civil war - and followed, the next morning, by another civil war. A rebel in Liberia, strolling the streets of Monrovia, wearing a neglig�e as a head-dress. An American soldier being dragged through a street in Somalia. The skeletal remains of the capital of Uganda, a third of its population infected by HIV. Is it possible to describe a continent undergoing such change?
| ISBN: | 9780140140873 |
| Publication date: | 7th January 2008 |
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| Publisher: | Granta Magazine an imprint of Granta Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Series: | Granta: The Magazine of New Writing |
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Anthologies: general Travel writing Literary essays |