African Leaders: Guiding the New Millennium (A to Z Guides) - Hardcover

Rake, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810840197 ISBN 13: 9780810840195

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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.--Reference and Research Book News

Synopsis:

This work attempts to provide 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 of the person followed by a life history. The book aims to be essentially journalistic, it tells the stories of the people who are leading their countries in the new millennium, however, it also offers the reader insight, anecdote, and comment as well as a general assessment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0810840197
• ISBN 13: 9780810840195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272