The first meeting of the Book Club in the new year is scheduled to take place on 2 February 2012 from 7 p.m. at the African Information Centre. The discussion will centre around one of the greatest works of African literature, the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The book is available for borrow at our library. Please go to our on-line catalogue to find more books by Chinua Achebe.
BY MINISTER MAITE NKOANA-MASHABANE (Ms Nkoana-Mashabane is Minister of International Relations and Co-operation)
As we prepare to host the Global Diaspora Summit on Friday, the world looks on with great anticipation to the potential benefits of this historical event to both the continent and the African diaspora. This summit takes place at a poignant period of a month, on a day dedicated to celebrating the continent – Africa Day. The meeting is by all accounts one of the greatest milestones yet achieved in the history of the AU, and indeed the continentMore
Erik S. Reinert
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment—rather than through free trade. Yet when our leaders lecture poor countries on the right path to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the fact that our economies were founded on protectionism long before they could afford the luxury of free trade. How Rich Countries Got Rich… will challenge economic orthodoxy and open up the debate on why self-regulating markets are not the best answer to our hopes of worldwide prosperity.More
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