Grasping Africa

STEPHEN CHAN is Professor of International Relations and Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence and Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War (both published by I.B.Tauris).

'Insightful, elegant and compassionate... Should be on the bedside table of every African policymaker in the West.' -William M. Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC 'Personal and passionate, Stephen Chan has written a powerful critique of those who think they know the answers to Africa's problems. Africa, he suggests, is in the grip of a distorted post-colonial relationship between itself and the rest of the world and that leaves it powerless. That is the biggest problem of all.' -Richard Dowden, Director, The Royal African Society