The State of Africa

The State of Africa: A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence
AuthorMartin Meredith
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory of Africa; Politics of Africa
PublishedLondon
PublisherFree Press; Simon & Schuster
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages752
ISBN9780743232210
OCLC607697514
960.32

The State of Africa: A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence (also published under the title The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair; republished in 2011 as The State of Africa: A History Of The Continent Since Independence) is a 2005 book by British writer Martin Meredith.

Background and synopsis

The book is an in-depth investigation into the history of Africa since European decolonisation. Meredith examines the many challenges much of Africa has faced including civil conflict and lawlessness, government corruption and dictatorships. Africa is described as a continent where "bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa)."

Reception

Australian The Age newspaper writer Pamela Bone wrote that in "this big, exhaustive history Martin Meredith leaves us in little doubt as to what he believes is the primary cause of Africa's pain: its corrupt, tyrannical, incompetent, thieving, "vampire-like" leaders... It documents, country by country, decade by decade, a depressing litany of wars, revolutions, dictatorships, famines, genocide, coups and economic collapse".[1] While Bone wrote that the book is an "impressive history, well told" she criticised the fact that "the book misses the spirit of Africa, the joyfulness and strength of the people, which persists despite their appalling hardships, and which gives hope".

Writing in The Independent, Alex Duval Smith described The State of Africa as a "dispassionate analysis" that "does more than perhaps he (Meredith) realises to set the past 50 African years in a continuum"[2]

Chris Nkwatsibwe, a human rights activist from Uganda praised the book. Nkwatsibwe wrote that "Meredith works with the colossal spatial and temporal span of this subject with ease, weaving chapters together in a loose chronological order to present the narrative as a patchwork quilt of Africa, rather than as a rigid country-by-country timeline".[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The state of Africa - Reviews - Books - Entertainment". theage.com.au. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  2. ^ "The State of Africa by Martin Meredith". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  3. ^ "A Brief Review of 'The State of Africa' – Martin Meredith | Young Leaders Forum". ylf-eastafrica.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.

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