Table of Contents
Map vi
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword Chinua Achebe xiii
1 Africa is a night flight away: Images and realities 1
2 Africa is different: Uganda I 11
3 How it all went wrong: Uganda II 38
4 The end of colonialism: New states, old societies 51
5 Amazing, but is it Africa? Somalia 90
6 Forward to the past: Zimbabwe 127
7 Breaking apart: Sudan 158
8 A tick bigger than the dog: Angola 199
9 Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda 223
10 God, trust and trade: Senegal 255
11 Dancers and the leopard men Sierra Leone 284
12 The positive positive women: AIDS in Africa 321
13 Copying King Leopold: Congo 353
14 Not just another country: South Africa 380
15 Meat and money: Eating in Kenya 415
16 Look out world: Nigeria 439
17 New colonists or old friends? Asia in Africa 484
18 Phones, Asians and the professionals: The new Africa 509
Epilogue 543
Further Reading 551
Index 554