Africa Emerges

Consumate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities - by Robert I. Rotberg

Published 2013 by Polity pp 296 ISBN 978-0-7456-6162-9

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled 'dark continent'. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role in world affairs.

Yet the road ahead is not without obstacles. As world renowned expert on African affairs Robert Rotberg expertly shows, Africa may be poised to deliver real rewards to its long suffering citizens but it faces critical new crises as well as abundant new opportunities. Africa Emerges draws on a wealth of empirical data to explore the key challenges Africa must overcome in the coming decades. From peacekeeping to health and disease, from energy needs to education, this illuminating analysis diagnoses the remaining impediments Africa will ned to surmount if it is to emerge in 2050 as a prosperous, peaceful, dynamic collection of robust large and small nations.