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Book SynopsisThe 21st century will be the century of Africa. How can we best understand it? Demography, economics, politics, diplomacy, cultures and religions, this book presents the different facets of this new Africa, which will soon have a billion people, at the mid point of the most rapid population boom that humanity has ever known.
Trade Review"A wake-up call. Its message is simple: look out world, here comes Africa."
Wall Street Journal "Clearly conceived, cleanly structured, tightly written and lucidly expressed. A highly readable text."
European Voice "Their optimistic analysis of the continent and its inhabitants should be read by all who are interested in looking at Africa with a fresh and different perspective."
African Security Review
"A significant book for those interested in questions of economic and cultural change."
The Age
"Africa's Moment has the great value of underlining that Africa's future is indeed in the hands of Africans."
South World
"A timely and positive assessment of Africa's prospects founded upon deep understanding and a distinctive perspective."
Paul Collier, University of Oxford
"The West is wedded to a retrograde vision of Africa's past and know nothing of its present, even less of its future. This unprecedented book forces revision of that outlook by addressing a world, just a few decades from now, where one in four human beings will be African."
Keith Hart, University of London
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword by Paul Collier
Introduction
Part One: The Peopling of a Continent
Chapter 1 Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
Chapter 2 Malthus on CNN
Part Two Africa on the Move
Chapter 3 A Black Peril?
Chapter 4 Crowded Roads
Part Three: Africa Versus Growth
Chapter 5 The Undiscoverable Curse
Chapter 6 The Great Wheel of Growth
Part Four: When Africa Awakes
Chapter 7 The Great Clean-Up
Chapter 8 Emerging Africa
Part Five: God’s Africa
Chapter 9 Urban Compositions
Chapter 10 Crescent and Cross
Chapter 11 Switched-On Africa
Chapter 12 The End of Ethnicity
Chapter 13 African Democracy
Part Six: One March, Three Directions
Chapter 14 Countries of Rent, Countries in Danger
Chapter 15 The Vanguard of Development
Chapter 16 Fragile Africa: One Crisis After Another
Part Seven: Africa, The World’s Vitality
Chapter 17 The End of Infinity
Chapter 18 Light Against Darkness
Chapter 19 The Hunger for Land
Chapter 20 The Struggle for Man
Part Eight: The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations
Chapter 21 Africa Courted
Chapter 22 Emerging Powers: Africa’s New Exploiters?
Chapter 23 Acknowledging Africa
Conclusion
Maps
Notes
Index
