Into The House Of Africa
Into the House of our Ancestors
By Karl Maier
"Two recent works have dominated conversations about Africa in the late 1990's: Robert B. Kaplan's article The Coming Anarchy and Keith B. Richburg's book, Out of America -- a surprising circumstance, perhaps, since neither work was, strictly speaking, about Africa" says Howard French, a NYT writer. It was until Karl Maier's Into the House of Our Ancestors until a somewhat optimistic outlook on Africa emerges. Maier is the first person to write a book on what some are calling the African renaissance. Maier quotes Nelson Mandela, "We are moving from an era of resistance, division, oppression, turmoil and conflict and starting a new era of hope, reconciliation and nation-building." Maier addresses some of the major problems Africa had faced in the past but says, "Yet blaming Africa's myriad problems on the outside world will simply not do any more, and it is very rare to hear Africans living in Africa offering such excuses", and......
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