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Quality


Squeeze into the front seat of this jalopy as it swerves and careens through borders and an ever changing landscape of places, ...  Read More


Illustrates the immense cultural, economic and leadership challenges of the ‘dark’ continent.


The college he taught in is ruined, the grants stolen.


He criticizes ancient temple defacement and reconstruction, and mocks the tourists he travels with.

Price


The stand-out being the hypocritical aid organizations that have built and continue to sustain themselves at supreme cost to th...  Read More


I will from now on be lobbying my member of parliment for more accountability when it comes to donating our hard earned tax dol...  Read More


The young, 'androgynous' women who is out to save the street walkers, who in truth, don't want to be saved, and they make a lot...  Read More

Shipping


Made me rethink a lot of africa and the way we think about it and what we actually do with all the aid and the way it is delivered.


Theroux arrives in johannesburg, now full of immigrants and crime.


Through mozambique's bombed buildings and land mines left from the civil war theroux reaches zimbabwe, ruled by madman robert mugabe.


Indian merchants who came in the days of the british empire were driven away after independence.

Competitiveness


The great rift valley and lake victoria lay ahead in uganda.


The people the author mentions on safari helmets and khaki outfits must be the ones he met when he went on a luxury safari, bec...  Read More


The contrast with the charity workers, who would not make eye contact or stop to help out a fellow traveller.


This one is just as mesmerizing cairo to capetown.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    many, african, continent, great and dark.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is low.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 73.6% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 1,557 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 20 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The author confirms what i have long suspected that the tourists mostly see the areas where the infrastructure is kept in good condition and not the really run down areas where most africans live


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The continent of africa is foreign soil to me only having exposure to morocco


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The aid is looted and bastardized in all cases and the “hunger porn” fed contributors maintains a vicious status quo


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Riding in new white land rovers et al refusing direct contact with the alleged recipients of their aid boggles the mind


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book confirms the knowledge that the african peoples have been dragged into a welfare state existence stripped of the ability to make a life beyond subsistence


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The laying bare of international aid inept government and the affect they have on the people resources and livelihoods of different african nations was eye opening


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Traveling overland the peace corps veteran theroux endures rides on risky buses and positively dangerous trucks in the company of ordinary africans and random westerners


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There are infestations of crazy militia men also plagues of western aid workers in pristine white pickup trucks

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