
Africa Today
The rapidly increasing importance of Africa in world affairs became apparent by the late 1970s. However, media coverage at that time presented a picture of great complexity, confusion, and even impending disaster. It was easy to take refuge in simplistic, over-generalized, and highly prejudiced explanations for contemporary problems, blaming colonial exploitation, neocolonialism, internal capitali...
The rapidly increasing importance of Africa in world affairs became apparent by the late 1970s. However, media coverage at that time presented a picture of great complexity, confusion, and even impending disaster. It was easy to take refuge in simplistic, over-generalized, and highly prejudiced explanations for contemporary problems, blaming colonial exploitation, neocolonialism, internal capitali...
