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Richard Dowden



Average rating: 4.1 · 2,253 ratings · 204 reviews · 20 distinct worksSimilar authors
Africa: Altered States, Ord...

4.13 avg rating — 1,975 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Getting Somalia Wrong?: Fai...

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Chocolate Nations: Living a...

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Digital Democracy, Analogue...

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Africa: Why Economists Get ...

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China in Africa

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State of Rebellion: Violenc...

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Walks After Wild Flowers, o...

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“Westerners arriving in Africa for the first time are always struck by its beauty and size--even the sky seems higher. And they often find themselves suddenly cracked open. They lose inhibitions, feel more alive, more themselves, and they begin to understand why, until then, they have only half lived. In Africa the essentials of existence--light, earth, water, food, birth, family, love, sickness, death--are more immediate, more intense. Visitors suddenly realize what life is for. To risk a huge generalization: [In the West], amid our wasteful wealth and time-pressed lives we have lost human values that still abound in Africa.”
Richard Dowden

“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the other way. No matter how much I talked no-one understood what I was saying.”
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“Our tip for the waiter for bringing us that coffee pot will be more than a week’s income for the family in Africa who grew the coffee.”
Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

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