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“Rarely does an author combine experience, common sense and humour when writing about Africa. It's even rarer when the analysis is as hard-hitting as in the writing of Robert Guest.” Roger Bate, Wall Street Journal. “I doubt whether there is a better brief introduction to the travails of modern Africa and their causes.” Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph. "An excellent book. Timely, provocative and written throughout with a passion for Africa and Africans." Bob Geldof “astute and clever…[Guest has] an extremely strong and rationalist grasp of the present, and travels with the classical economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith as inspiration. The Shackled Continent is a lively and provocative read.” RW Johnson, Sunday Times. “[Guest] is a lively and observant reporter. He portrays, with humour and some compassion, how nothing really works in most African countries.The reader can learn much from this lively and outspoken book.” Anthony Sampson, The Guardian. “Anyone who wants to be reminded of the horrors of Africa, economic or otherwise, will be interested to read this intelligent but light treatise.” Christopher Ondaatje, Literary Review. “It seems odd that Robert Guest causes as much trouble as he does. The 33-year old Africa editor of the influential Economist magazine is personable, witty [and] eminently reasonable. But [he] brings people’s blood to boiling point quicker than one can say The Shackled Continent.”Jeremy Gordin, The Star, South Africa. “This is the kind of book you read holding your nose. Even H.M. Stanley, the British journalist/explorer who lived fat on the weird stories about Africa he published in his journals, [would have been] ashamed of some of the views expressed by Guest.” Osei Boateng, New African.“This is the book for those who despair for Africa, but even more, it is the book for those who despise Africa. [Guest's writing reveals] his journalist's determination to unravel Africa's complicated, seemingly intractable problems and his economists' determination to rectify them. . . . You can't know how cynical and complacent you've become about the world's problems until you take this journey with Robert Guest.”—Debra Dickerson, author of The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to their Rightful Owners.“Guest recognizes that the economic modernization he advocates comes with a price, but he is nonetheless optimistic. Readers may be moved enough to find ways of being so, too.”—Publishers Weekly
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About the Author
Robert Guest is a Washington correspondent for The Economist and regularly appears on CNN and the BBC. Previously, he covered Africa for seven years, based in London and Johannesburg. He has also worked as a correspondent in Tokyo and a freelance writer in South Korea. He lives in Washington, DC.
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Product details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588342972
ISBN-13: 978-1588342973
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
15 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#311,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Definityely 5 stars for this excellently written book. The narrative is smooth flowing,easy to read and follow, with admirable clarity and honesty of what is being told,interpreted,surmised,unravaled or analyzed.I read it from cover to cover. It's like embarking on a journey through Africa and discovering,sometimes surprisingly, facts about this complex and beautiful continent which you were either unaware of, or just didn't care to know about before. As the author points out, tribalism,abuse of power and corruption of post colonial leaders are significant root causes of SubSaharan Africa's seemingly perpetual poverty. The deplorable conditions encourage educated professionals to emigrate to other (non-African)countries, thus depriving Africa of badly needed talent. But the author also stresses that elimination or at least significant mitigation of the widespread corruption and ineptness of the governing power will eventually lead the continent to prosperity. A new generation of skillful and educated Africans will inevitably and hopefully emerge to institute a massive cleanup of what the author calls as "thugocracy". The book is a coverage of Africa from a journalistic and economist point of view,the author being both a good journalist and economist. And this coverage skillfully told in a very interesting understandable style. As I have mentioned previuosly in another African review ,we have become too overly exposed to the conflicts of the Middle East to such a degree that we tend to ignore Africa (subSaharan) and its people.It is hoped that when you take this journey with Robert Guest,you will become more broadminded and feel more compassion and respect for this remarkable continent wracked by post colonial civil wars and their after effects,and receiving insufficient attention by the international community. Yet,despite all these devastation and painfully slow rehabilitation,the comments and anecdotes expressed by the people who can still afford to retain their sense of humor, somehow suggest hope.The progress which is reflected by South Africa may serve as a beacon of hope for the rest of the continent. This hope is somehow depicted in the last paragraph of the last chapter of the book: The author was talking to a 19 yr old youth who,after the civil wars, began raising and processing chickens for a living.The author commented that the Japanese labored for a century before they caught up with the West. The African boy shrugged his shoulders."We can do it,too," he replied,"And besides,raising chickens is better than fighting." I highly recommend this book to everyone who knows plenty,knows little or knows nothing about Africa.
Guest fills his book with first hand, vivid examples. This is a perfect companion volume to Martin Meredith's excellent The Fate of Africa, and it is hard for me to tell which of them is the better master of building a proper sentence. Though both of these men catalogue the problems with depressing thorougness, neither of them delve into the worldview that perpetuates the shackles. However, Guest has done a remarkable service by recording so many first hand accounts from a broad section of countries on the continent.
There are an abundance of books and articles hypothesizing the reasons why African nations are so poor, the majority of which blame rich countries and European colonialism. Robert Guest, African correspondent for The Economist, briefly discusses and then dismisses these arguments as being the primary culprits by putting them in historical context against other nations that have similar histories.Instead, Guest focuses on issues endemic to Africa, giving hope to improvements coming from within the continent and hope of a more stable, healthier and wealthier future. While Guest argues that there is need for aid in Africa, he outlines why, how and where the aid should be targeted, noting that much more can be achieved through less costly but better focused reforms.The Shackled Continent is a pleasure to read as Guest's style is both interesting and informative. He uses personal accounts, first-person interviews and historical reference to solidify his points and lends an overall hopeful tone to his book.
It is a few years old now so needs to be read with a pinch of salt or an updated knowledge of Africa, but the book is brilliant and completely on target.
Africa, how did it get that way, and who's fault is it?Guest puts his gift for prose and analysis on full display in this fascinating page turner. He avoids the pitfall that so often engulfs writers who take on the subject of Africa, in blaming the West for the horrors that pass for everyday occurrences on the "Dark Continent". In fact, Guest probably is guilty of going too far the other way and assigning almost total blame on the Africans themselves.Truth be told, his perception is more accurate than the opposite school, and as ubiquitous as that pandering thought is, this is a breath of fresh air.Imminently readable and evidence of decades of travel all over sub-Saharan Africa, this is a must read for anyone interested in analyzing the most horrific examples of human endeavor (Africa).
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