Looks at how African and Western patterns are merging, examines the problems that face modern Africa, and clears up Western misconceptions about the continent

How Can Africa Survive?

History

Whitaker, Jennifer Seymour

Africa

Harpercollins

Strategies for African Development

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Business & Money

Berg, Robert J.

Economics

University of California Press

An authority on economic development discusses the monumental buildup of waste in America's land and water; takes a critical close-up look at current policies; and suggests a potential solution that emphasizes restructuring market incentives. 25,000 first printing.

Salvaging the Land of Plenty: Garbage and the American Dream

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

William Morrow Company

How Can Africa Survive?Why does it matter whether or not we see clearly what is happening in Africa? What are these people to us? The importance of almost everything in Africa-particularly- its largely untapped markets- remains potential. In any ordering of geopolitical and economic interest, most of the continent must rank pretty far down on the list. Rumors of a coup in Nigeria trouble oil brokers briefly; news of Cuban troops or anti-Communist insurgencies provide for conservative congressmen with pretexts for low risk ideologies partying; East African ports offer depots for U.S. naval maneuvers in the Indian Ocean. In our flickering concern about the continent, it is the potential risks in ignoring Africa's problems that undoubtedly have the most potency.The equation to fixe the vast problems and erupting economic conditions of Africa in not neat. Ingrained tradition is stubborn, and change is inevitable. Tradition impedes progress and change unleashes social chaos. A lot more change is needed before things can get better but for some time to come change will often make things look a lot worse. Not to chart the outcome of these tensions is the books essence. The satisfaction to the mystery in solving Africa's problems, where it is found, must accommodate great uncertainty.

How Can Africa Survive

Council on Foreign Relations

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