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03419aam a2200445 i 4500 001 74C83E62EC6A11E7AF65C16E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171229012527 008 160527s2016 sa ab b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2015494938 020 $a 1868424294 020 $a 9781868424290 020 $a 1868424286 020 $a 9781868424283 035 $a (OCoLC)945484445 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OI@ $d Z@L $d OCLCF $d NDD $d ZCU $d GZM $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a DT30.5 $b .B59 2016 082 04 $a 960.331 $2 23 100 1 $a Bloom, Kevin, $e author. 245 10 $a Continental shift : $b a journey into Africa's changing fortunes / $c Kevin Bloom & Richard Poplak. 246 30 $a Journey into Africa's changing fortunes 264 1 $a Johannesburg ; $b Jonathan Ball Publishers, $c 2016. 300 $a 4 unnumbered pages, 419 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Outside, in -- Namibia: tending the shoots of a new middle class -- Botswana: how the builders of the Three Gorges Dam tested an African anomaly -- Zimbabwe: hall of mirrors -- Nigeria: things fall together: Nollywood's simple secret -- Democratic Republic of the Congo: gold into lead into gold: the alchemy of war, reformulated -- Ethiopia: food security & the all-seeing eye -- South Sudan: the newborn: realpolitik in the world's newest country -- Central African Republic: the republic of nowhere & the limits of the nation state -- Inside, out. 520 $a AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year roadtrip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia's middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China's investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; and from the birth of Africa's newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa. Part detective story, part report from this economic frontier, Continental Shift follows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent. 651 0 $a Africa $x Politics and government $y 1960- 651 0 $a Africa $x Economic conditions $y 1960- 651 0 $a Africa $x Description and travel. 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 648 7 $a Since 1960 $2 fast 700 1 $a Poplak, Richard, $d 1973- $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710032406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=74C83E62EC6A11E7AF65C16E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search