by Guy Arnold
Uganda’s brutal dictator, Idi Amin (1971–1979) gave Black Africa a bad name. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
These bleak tin shacks set in the middle of nowhere were considered appropriate housing for Blacks (Bantu) by the apartheid regime. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
A Black Sash protest in South Africa. (Gille de Vlieg – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
Robert Mugabe with Lord Soames who attended the Zimbabwe Independence Ceremony, 1980. (Jason Laure – iAfrika Photos/africanpictures.net)
Robert Mugabe won the 1980 elections to become Zimbabwe’s first Prime Minister. (Jason Laure – iAfrika Photos/africanpictures.net)
Joshua Nkomo, popular leader of the Ndebele who never achieved his ambition to become President of Zimbabwe. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
Agostinho Neto, doctor, poet and leader of the MPLA who became first President of Angola 1975–1979. (Jim McLagan – Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
Leader of Unita, Jonas Savimbi would not accept second place. Only his death in 2002 brought peace to Angola. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
President Hastings Banda of Malawi: he was the only Black Leader to make a state visit to apartheid South Africa in 1971. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
Woman of Lesotho, a tiny beleaguered nation surrounded by South Africa. (Stephen Pryke – The Media Bank/africanpictures.net)
Lesotho: An arid land that has been overgrazed while its men sought work in the South African mines. (Rodney Barnett – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
P. W. Botha, the ‘Great Crocodile’, ruled South Africa throughout the 1980s, seen here with his wife. (Guy Tillim – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
Andries Treurnicht, leader of the C. P., opponent of J. B. Vorster. (Paul Weinberg – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria 1999. (Africa Week)
President Sam Nujoma listens with a smile as South African President F. W. de Klerk addresses the Namibian nation during the independence celebrations. (Andrew Ingram – Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
President Sam Nujoma’s guard of honour stand to attention as he inspects them during the Namibian independence celebrations. (Andrew Ingram – Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in an uneasy alliance that brought the new South Africa into being. (Gideon Mendel – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
Confrontation: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the charismatic priest whose preaching against apartheid had a huge impact. (Benny Gool – Oryx Media Productions/africanpictures.net)
Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana in conclave. (Africa Week)
President Nelson Mandela of South Africa and President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique established a cordial, close relationship. (Cape Argus – Trace Images/africanpictures.net)
Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1999. (John Robinson – South Photographs/africanpictures.net)
Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, architects of NEPAD, with Britain’s Tony Blair. (Africa Week)
Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Umaru Yar’Adua of Nigeria attend a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, 28 February 2008. President Umaru Yar’Adua was in China for a four-day trip in order to add momentum to a recent bilateral trade partnership. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
A Chinese construction worker with Ethiopian workers at the new African Union buildings in Addis Ababa, November 2010. The building was entirely funded by China. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
Young boys emerge from a tunnel at a cassiterite and coltan mine in the Szibira district of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Cassiterite and coltan ore is mostly mined by women and children and is used in the production of mobile phones and computers. (Tom Stoddart/Edit by Getty Images)
President Jacob Zuma hands FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter the World Cup Trophy ahead of the 2010 tournament, which was held in South Africa. Zuma’s presidency was soon to be mired in accusations of corruption. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
An Egyptian protester waves the national flag during clashes with soldiers near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, 16 December 2011. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
African migrants head for the Italian island of Lampedusa, joining hundreds of others fleeing war and despair in Libya, summer 2013. (Tony Comiti/Corbis via Getty Images)
Locals in Bourem, northern Mali, welcome French soldiers after a military intervention was launched to drive out Islamist rebels from the towns they controlled, February 2013. (Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)
Catherine Samba-Panza celebrates being elected interim president of the Central African Republic, 20 January 2014. Her appointment came after months of sectarian violence in the country. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)
First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2005 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
This new edition first published in hardback in Great Britain in 2017 by Atlantic Books.
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