Season of Rains: Africa in the World

by Stephen Ellis

Book Overview

Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa's place in time if we are to understand it in all its complexity--it is a region where growth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226205592
• ISBN13: 9780226205595
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"