Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68219 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Times Literary Supplement, September 21, 2007
'Calderisi's The Trouble With Africa is the most original of the three, with its refreshing frankness about the drags on development caused by dysfunctional political systems.'

Business Voice, October 1, 2007 Business Voice, October 1, 2007
'In The Trouble With Africa Calderisi brings you up close to the corruption, greed and incompetence that bedevil the continent. He echoes the shocking truth put forward in recent books, that resource -- and talent-rich countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, are actually sliding backwards.'

Synopsis
Calderisi shows that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement; that corrupt, dictatorial regimes have hobbled agriculture, enterprise and foreign investment; that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism; and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt. Calderisi exposes the shortcomings and indulgences of foreign aid and debt relief, and proposes his own radical solutions. Drawing on many years of first hand experience, "The Trouble with Africa" highlights issues which have been ignored by Africa's leaders but have long worried ordinary Africans, diplomats, academics, business leaders, aid workers, volunteers and missionaries. It ripples with stories which only someone who has talked directly to African farmers - and heads of state - could recount.