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About Howard W. French
See more books from this AuthorOtherwise, Western governments hold Africa at arm’s length: “Serving up atrocities is a business of diminishing returns, and Washington, having experimented with so-called African solutions to African problems, silently recognized its failure and vowed to stay away altogether.” In a land sowed wi...
| Read Full Review of A Continent for the Taking: T...While his insights into Zaire's Mobutu and Congo's Laurent Kabila are valuable, like many other writers on Africa French excoriates the "treachery and betrayal of Africa by a wealthy and powerful West."
| Read Full Review of A Continent for the Taking: T...“With a new strategic vision wheeling into position in Washington—one based on fighting Islamic radicalism in Sudan, securing the lion’s share of Angola’s petroleum reserves for American oil companies and atoning for its criminal negligence during the Rwandan genocide—the White House anointing of...
Jul 28 2004 | Read Full Review of A Continent for the Taking: T...He is a former senior writer and correspondent for The New York Times, where he was bureau chief in Shanghai, Tokyo, Abidjan (West and Central Africa), and for Central America and the Caribbean.
Jul 01 2013 | Read Full Review of A Continent for the Taking: T...Without attempting to address the rich plurality of contemporary African cultures and identities as a counterpoint to limiting conceptions of an "authentic" Africa, however, French settles for themes all too familiar to media critics (and to readers of Fanon), such as the role of Tarzan in the sh...
| Read Full Review of A Continent for the Taking: T...An aggregated and normalized score based on 35 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes