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Continent of mothers, continent of hope : understanding and promoting development in Africa today

Paperback • 2003 • English

Continent of mothers, continent of hope : understanding and promoting development in Africa today

By Torild Skard

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About the book

What is Africa really like today? For all the ordinary townsmen, villagers, and particularly mothers, breadwinners and children who live there? Cutting through the Western media's stereotype picture of a continent wracked only by civil conflict and AIDS, Torild Skard has written an engrossing introduction to a continent in change. Based on her extensive travels through the length and breadth of the region when she served as UNICEF's Director in West and Central Africa in the 1990s, this experien...Show more

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9781842771068

Publisher

London : Zed Books

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Continent of mothers, continent of hope : understanding and promoting development in Africa today

Format

Paperback

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