Books
Abstract
Robert I. Rotberg has been an observer of and participant in the evolution of southern Africa for over forty years. In this book he charts the processof freeing southern Africa and analyzes its troublesome aftermath, from the first heady days of independence through the frustrating failures of modernization, merciless civil wars, and despotism and the collapse of states. The second half of his book is about the eventual triumph of justice over apartheid and the growing support throughout southern Africa for participatory democracy instead of kleptocracy and autocracy.