This Is Africa

What is Africa? Africa is vast savannas and teeming cities, oil wells and village water holes, gated suburbs and crumbling shantytowns, Great Lakes and the world's largest hot desert, visionary leaders and petty corruption, diamond mines and workers living on $2 a day, thriving art and music scenes and war-torn cultures. This Is Africa is a book about a continent of enormous diversity.

Africa is big, far bigger than many people may realize. Those who may be accustomed to the Mercator projec...