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COPYRIGHT 2000 Professors World Peace Academy
Robert M. Press
Gainesville: The University of Florida Press, 1999
380 pages, hardcover, $24.95
Robert Press's The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent is a welcome overview of events taking place in Africa between 1987 and 1995 following the "winds of change" blowing from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It is based on eight years (1987-1995) of personal experiences as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, based in Nairobi, Kenya and reporting on the Sub Saharan countries in West, East and Central Africa. It is blended with a good selection of maps and complemented by very good photographs taken by his wife Betty which help to link a character explain a certain event.
The book is divided into seven chapters, each focusing on what the author saw as an important subject in the changes taking place in Africa. It is organized around three themes: (a) the desire of the Africans to free themselves from the totalitarian one party regimes that were prevalent in Sub Saharan Africa and replace them with democratic institutions guaranteeing plural politics, the holding of regular "free and fair" elections and good governance; (b) drawing lessons from the other parts of the world--more especially from the breakup of former Soviet Union and the...
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