Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.

Distilled wisdom on what has happened on the African continent in the last fifty years by a well-known journalist and scholar.

About the Author

Colin Legum now lives in Cape Town, his original home, from which he was for many years banned under apartheid. He is the author of numerous books, including Pan-Africanism: A Brief History and South Africa: Crisis for the West (with Margaret Legum). He was the founder of the African Contemporary Record and edited twenty- three volumes of this publication. He was also co-editor of The Middle East Survey.

Book Information
ISBN 9780253213341
Author Colin Legum
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press