Publisher's Synopsis
What is happening on the continent of Africa? What are its images? The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the President of the Republic of South Africa. A pile of discarded machetes, their blades broken off, on a road in Rwanda. A hot, still election day in Angola, ending a seventeen-year civil war - and followed, the next morning, by another civil war. A rebel in Liberia, strolling the streets of Monrovia, wearing a neglig�e as a head-dress. An American soldier being dragged through a street in Somalia. The skeletal remains of the capital of Uganda, a third of its population infected by HIV. Is it possible to describe a continent undergoing such change?
