Unlock Now Understanding Contemporary Africa Imagined By April A. Gordon In Digital Edition

This book is a great introduction to contemporary Africa, It manages to quickly summarize historical underpinnings and cover a relatively wide array of current affairs, As with any compilation, some sections are better than others, Unfortunately April Gordon herself is on the low end of the contributors, She actually writes, "Africans hate all generalizations about Africa, " Maybe she is trying to be humorous, . . Excellent radiography to the African continent, information is in congruence as Willian Hance studies and research about Africa in Population Migration and Urbanization in Africa.
A solid but somewhat uneven introduction to Africa, The chapters are thematic, with topics like the role of women, religion, International Relations, and the environment from the precolonial era to the present day.
In general each section is quite informative, but some chapters seem more vital than others, For example, the chapter on African Literature ispages long, and really amounts to little more than a listing of authors there's not much substance.
By contrast, the chapter on African history was a bit too general and could definitely have been extended.
I think this would work best in combination with works of social history try Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa or personal narratives by African authors.
On its own, its a bit academic, It did help

me to better understand the role of the IMF and World Bank in developing nations, and the complexities involved in giving and managing aid.
Read this in undergrad parts of it anyway for my class Economic Systems in Africa, It's an interesting read. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events and trends including Africa and the war on terror, progress and problems in democratization, advances by women in politics, developments in the fight against AIDS, the growing influence of China, the establishment of the African Union, and much more this new edition of Understanding Contemporary Africa treats the range of issues facing the continent in the first decade of the twentyfirst century.
The authors provide current, thorough analyses not only of history, politics, and economics, but also geography, environmental concerns, population shifts, family and kinship, the role of women, religious beliefs, and literature.
Each topic is covered in an accessible style, but with reference to the latest scholarship, Maps, photographs, and a table of basic political data enhance the text, which has made its place as the best available introduction to this diverse and complex continent.
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