Delivery included to the United States

A Good African Story How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand

Paperback (02 Jan 2014)

Save $1.75

  • RRP $17.47
  • $15.72
Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 72 hours

free Reserve & collect

Copies available at Blackwell's Newcastle Percy Street

Reserve in Store |  Check stock elsewhere

Publisher's Synopsis

Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spiral of debt and dependence. Africa has received over $1 trillion in aid over the last fifty years and yet despite these huge inflows, the continent remains mired in poverty, disease and systemic corruption.

In A Good African Story, as Andrew Rugasira recounts the very personal story of his company and the challenges that he has faced - and overcome - as an African entrepreneur, he provides a tantalising glimpse of what Africa could be, and argues that trade has achieved what years of aid have failed to deliver.

This is a book about Africa taking its destiny in its own hands, and dictating the terms of its future.

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099571926
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.4766393096761
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 208g
Height: 197mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 18mm