Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004
Africa: The Hard Truth
By Neal Ascherson
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by Howard W. French
Knopf, 280 pp., $25.00
In the newspapers and on television, the tide of bad news from Africa rises again. Once more, the tiny butcher-bird of Rwanda is pecking at the eyes of the dying elephant which is the Congo. Once more, concerned white reporters crouch by emaciated babies, as the camera zooms in on the victims of the ethnic cleansing, massacre, and starvation which are obliterating the people of Darfur.
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