Hotel africa

the long version

Stories we tell about Africa (and those we don't) -- "Trouble" with Africans -- The skeptic's guide to aid -- The disease -- The cure -- Until the peasant revolution -- Rwanda's post-genocide capitalism -- Uganda's humanitarian wars -- In Malawi, charity is not enough -- Freedom rang first in Ghana -- Hotel Africa -- Made for export -- Aga Khan's Africa -- Measuring inequality, or who eats ice cream in Accra? -- Cheap chickens -- From Memphis to Lira: King Cotton comes home -- Everyday corruption in Uganda -- Primary education -- Darfur's ambiguous legacy -- Cocoa Socialism -- Chimpanzees politics -- Climate change -- A new map for Africa -- Education of an extrordinary African -- Mask and statue -- Mud people and super farmers -- Africa's Obama fantasy -- The end of poverty -- The politics of escape.