Richard Dowden: 5 books

Na 35 jaar in Afrika kan Richard Dowden met recht een zeer eigen geschiedenis schrijven over de Afrikaanse staten en hun bevolking. Hij beschrijft Afrika vanaf het moment dat de Europeanen vertrokken waren en nadat de superpowers arriveerden. Hij vertelt, onthult en verklaart en laat de lezer zijn...

After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for...

Un état des lieux magistral du continent le plus tourmenté du monde. Un livre profondément émouvant et optimiste. Chaque fois que vous tentez d’expliquer « L’Afrique, c’est… », les mots se désagrègent, se dissolvent. Chaque fois que vous tentez d’exprimer une généralité sur l’Afrique,...

Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children registered at birth or entered in school or university; they cannot access state health services; they cannot...

Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed...