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Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs Hardcover - 2001
by Peter Schwab
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- Title Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs
- Author Peter Schwab
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 212
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, New York
- Date October 5, 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 031224018X.G
- ISBN 9780312240189 / 031224018X
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 5.64 x 0.78 in (22.25 x 14.33 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Africa - Economic conditions - 1960-, Africa - Politics and government - 1960-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001021864
- Dewey Decimal Code 967.04
First line
When Aime Cesaire, Martinique's great poet, wrote in 1939 that he was a solitary black man ensnared in white who scorned the screams of a "white death" he voiced the ideology of Negritude, the concept that "represents profound reaction to the denigration of the African and his culture that marked the [slave era and the] colonial period, and which brought many of the Africans to the psychologically perilous position of questioning the basic values by which they had been taught to live.