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Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities
Author(s): Robert Rotberg (Author)
- Publisher: Polity
- Publication Date: 26 April 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780745661629
- ISBN-13: 9780745661629
Book Description
Yet the road ahead is not without obstacles. As world renowned expert on African affairs, Robert Rotberg, expertly shows, Africa today maybe poised to deliver real rewards to its long suffering citizens but it faces critical new crises as well as abundant new opportunities.
Africa Emerges draws on a wealth of empirical data to explore the key challenges Africa must overcome in the coming decades. From peacekeeping to health and disease, from energy needs to education, this illuminating analysis diagnoses the remaining impediments Africa will need to surmount if it is to emerge in 2050 as a prosperous, peaceful, dynamic collection of robust large and small nations.Africa Emerges offers an unparalleled guide for all those interested in the dynamics of modern Africa’s political, economic, and social development.
Editorial Reviews
Review
LSE Review of Books
“As world renowned expert on African affairs Robert Rotberg expertly shows, Africa may be poised to deliver real rewards to its long suffering citizens but it faces critical new crises.”
Africa Confidential
“Rotberg’s work is an elegant tour de force, sweeping all contemporary Africa into its view and establishing not just the continent’s well-known faults but the real hopes for its future. Honest and provocative, Rotberg has combined deep knowledge with real common sense.”
“Robert Rotberg has been one of the leading chroniclers of sub-Saharan Africa for decades. Africa Emerges is a comprehensive book that manages to survey a continent while being sensistive to nuance. Rotberg in an optimistic but unromantic manner paints a possible future for African countries that would, if adopted, transform the lives of tens of millions of people.”
Jeffrey Herbst, Colgate University
“The book provides a useful and informative insight into many developments that have had a positive effect upon millions of African people.”
Political Studies Review
