The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows

By Stan Ilo and Chu Ilo, Stan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420897055
• ISBN13: 9781420897050
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredible!

I very much enjoyed this book. Ilo looks at all levels of the issues affecting Africa today. His research and knowledge on Africa, African history, and the current climate is extremely thorough. It is clear he has a passion for the subject and his total approach model is not only practical, it is feasible. I found myself reading this slowly so I could absorb the points in each layer presented. Highly recommended.

The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows

This work is timely. At a time when many Westerners are reading Africa as masters and lords, Stan Chu Ilo, gives a new paradigm. He argues against the bifurcated vision of Africa that has been projected by many international organizations and agencies. His call for a total picture approach model for interpreting the movement of history in Africa is very insightful and well-taken; his call for Africans to take up again the task of nation-building is timely; his critique of globalization and neo-liberal orthodoxies is rooted in deep social scientific research and a keen sense of the bases for social evolution in Africa. The Afro-Christian vision that he projects based on signs of hope in Africa filled me with new sense of hope for Africa. His development of the structural injustice in Africa and the lack of African sense of identity which he interprets as the homelessness of Africans raises the concerns of Africa today beyond mere sentimentalism or romanticism to the concrete nithy grithy of deep engagment with history, politics, religion etc in a integral way to change the face of Africa. This book bears re-reading and needs to be put on the table of everyone who is interested in seeing the true face of Africa and wants to better the condition of African through the path of cultural and human development.