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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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- This product had a total of 1,557 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 20 2024.
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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
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The continent of africa is foreign soil to me only having exposure to morocco
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The aid is looted and bastardized in all cases and the “hunger porn” fed contributors maintains a vicious status quo
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Riding in new white land rovers et al refusing direct contact with the alleged recipients of their aid boggles the mind
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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
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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
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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
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There are infestations of crazy militia men also plagues of western aid workers in pristine white pickup trucks
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