{"product_id":"continental-shift-a-journey-into-africas-changing-fortunes","title":"Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrica is failing. Africa is succeeding. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a road map for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year road trip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia's middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China's investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; and from the birth of Africa's newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart detective story, part report from this economic frontier,\u003ci\u003eContinental Shift \u003c\/i\u003efollows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Bloom \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis an award-winning journalist whose first book,\u003ci\u003eWays of Staying\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2010 South African Literary Award for Literary Journalism and was shortlisted for the\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003eAlan Paton Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Poplak \u003c\/strong\u003eis a film-maker and journalist,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the author of\u003ci\u003eJa, No, Man \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sheikh's Batmobile.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781868424283\u003cbr\u003eFormat Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages 419p.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39308341575765,"sku":"9781868424283","price":265.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/0053\/8453\/products\/Continental_Shift.jpg?v=1617201504","url":"https:\/\/vikas-test.myshopify.com\/products\/continental-shift-a-journey-into-africas-changing-fortunes","provider":"Vikas Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}