{"product_id":"the-rift","title":"The Rift","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, \u003ci\u003eThe Rift\u003c\/i\u003e passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48855997251789,"sku":"9780316333771","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_91ab8853-7765-4ecd-91d1-8ccff78ab1c8.jpg?v=1794509733","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-rift","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}