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Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny By Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny by Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)


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Deals with Africa's economic evolution that reveals prisms for understanding continent's panoramic story, one of triumph over the lasting influences of nature and political tragedies. This book provides insights into Africa's economies and future, offering seasoned views on a continent of unlocked potential which has witnessed many false dawns.

Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny Summary

Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny: How the past is shaping Africa's economic evolution by Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

Many seek to "fix" Africa - economists, experts, politicians, gurus, cognoscenti and glitterati. But the continent conceals multiple secrets, including the Holy Grail: explanations of its saga over the previous centuries. Africa's Future tells the tale of Africa's economic evolution, revealing unique prisms for understanding the continent's panoramic story, one of triumph over the lasting influences of nature and multiple political tragedies. Modern Africa developed diverse economic pathways to betterment - yet survivalist economies litter the landscape. Its paradox of "subsistence with many faces" coexists amidst the tiny middle class, growing rich, and many more poor expected in the future. Clarke provides fresh and challenging insights into Africa's economies and future, offering seasoned views on a continent of unlocked potential which has witnessed many false dawns. Not "poor" but poorly managed, Africa holds greater promise, its destiny revealed by its history.

Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny Reviews

If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to this book -- Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society
Duncan Clarke's latest book on Africa sets out to answer tough questions about the continent, often asked but seldom satisfactorily answered: What shaped Africa's economies? What went wrong? And can its recent growth be sustained? The result is rather like travelling around Africa in the company of a knowledgeable and entertaining guide who draws lessons from the past while mapping out the future. -- Michael Holman, former Africa editor of Financial Times
A richly detailed review of Africa's past and what it tells us about the future, providing a sobering view of the realities on the ground. Indispensable for anyone interested in global trends in the 21st century. -- Ian Morris

About Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

With 40 years' background in the economics of Africa and the developing world, Duncan Clarke is a leading writer, thinker and speaker on economics and geopolitics in Africa. Founder and Chairman of Global Pacific & Partners, an advisory firm, recent work includes Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2010, 9781846684197). Now a CNBC Africa TV/Film documentary.

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GOR005377367
9781846685705
1846685702
Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny: How the past is shaping Africa's economic evolution by Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
2012-02-28
328
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