African Leaders: Guiding the New Millennium

Alan Rake

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Rake provides short profiles of Africa's leaders and their main challengers. It concentrates on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. Each profile has a short assessment of the character and career followed by a comprehensive life history. This is told in strict chronological order, on a country by country basis. The essential facts about each leader are featured in bold type at the beginning of each biography--the leader's rank, date of birth, ethnicity, religion, and political party.

More than a dry list of facts and dates, this volume includes insight, anecdote, comment, and a general assessment. The author has tried to show the part the leader has played in shaping the main events affecting his country during his time in office.

Book Details

Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Publish Date: Jun 26th, 2001
Pages: 272
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.44in - 5.98in - 0.78in - 0.89lb
EAN: 9780810840195
Categories: • General• Africa - General• Reference

About the Author

Alan Rake is Managing Editor of the monthly London-based magazine New African. He has specialized in African affairs for the last 35 years, working with many other magazines and newsletters, and is the author of a number of books and reference works on Africa.

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Very well written and has been carefully proofread...a great convenience...Rake manages to compress a large amount of material in a few pages.-- "International Journal of African Historical Studies"

Journalist Rake profiles 52 African leaders, focusing on presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. The entries are arranged alphabetically by country. In addition to an assessment of the leader's career and character, each profile lists the leader's rank, date of birth, ethnicity, religion, and political party and contains a chronological life history.--2001 "Reference and Research Book News"