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Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs

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  • © 2001

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  1. P. Schwab
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Keywords

  • Africa
  • cold war
  • conflict
  • corruption
  • desegregation
  • foreign policy
  • globalization
  • human rights
  • Policy
  • work

About this book

Can Africa survive? Many of the nations of sub-Saharan African have all but ceased to exist as organized states: tyranny, diseases such as AIDS, civil war, ethnic conflict and border invasions threaten the complete disintegration of a region. Peter Schwab offers a clear, authoritative portrait of a continent on the brink. Globalization and an accompanying level of economic health have passed over Africa. Added to these factors is a patronizing attitude from the West that change in Africa must take place within Western parameters, a UN that lacks any real power, and a US foreign policy in Africa that is unclear. Looking to South Africa as an example of successful Western support of an African nation, Schwab suggests that the US should use its leverage to help democrats into positions of power and then work with them under a framework dictated by the leaders themselves. It is only with a distinctly African approach to African problems that the survival of the continent can be assured.

Reviews

'Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries' circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis.' - Publishers Weekly

'Peter Schwab has written this book with courage, honesty, and enormous insight, as well as with a deep sense of humanity. For anyone interested in the reality of Africa, this is the book to read.' - Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia, 1990-1994

About the author

PETER SCHWAB is an authority on human rights. He has published extensively on the politics of Africa. He is a Professor of Political Science at SUNY Purchase.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs

  • Authors: P. Schwab

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6053-5Published: 01 May 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 212

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