Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, by Richard Dowden
Out of Africa always something new in armchair solutions, with the eternal certainty that none will work. Colonialism? Bad. Decolonisation? Disastrous. Neo-colonialism? Wicked. Bob Geldof? Er, no. So, leave the place alone and its bonjour Mugabe, or worse.
For well-wishers from the north it has been a slow learning-curve.
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