Robert Guest is a Washington correspondent for "The Economist" and regularly appears on CNN and the BBC. Previously, he covered Africa for seven years, based in London and Johannesburg. He has also worked as a correspondent in Tokyo and a freelance writer in South Korea. He lives in Washington, DC.
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"Rarely does an author combine experience, common sense and humour
when writing about Africa. It's even rarer when the analysis is as
hard-hitting as in the writing of Robert Guest." Roger Bate, Wall
Street Journal.
"I doubt whether there is a better brief introduction to the
travails of modern Africa and their causes." Anthony Daniels,
Sunday Telegraph.
"An excellent book. Timely, provocative and written throughout with
a passion for Africa and Africans." Bob Geldof
"astute and clever...[Guest has] an extremely strong and
rationalist grasp of the present, and travels with the classical
economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith as inspiration. The
Shackled Continent is a lively and provocative read." RW Johnson,
Sunday Times.
"[Guest] is a lively and observant reporter. He portrays, with
humour and some compassion, how nothing really works in most
African countries.
The reader can learn much from this lively and outspoken book."
Anthony Sampson, The Guardian.
"Anyone who wants to be reminded of the horrors of Africa, economic
or otherwise, will be interested to read this intelligent but light
treatise." Christopher Ondaatje, Literary Review.
"It seems odd that Robert Guest causes as much trouble as he does.
The 33-year old Africa editor of the influential Economist magazine
is personable, witty [and] eminently reasonable. But [he] brings
people's blood to boiling point quicker than one can say The
Shackled Continent."
Jeremy Gordin, The Star, South Africa.
"This is the kind of book you read holding your nose. Even H.M.
Stanley, the British journalist/explorer who lived fat on the weird
stories about Africa he published in his journals, [would have
been] ashamed of some of the views expressed by Guest." Osei
Boateng, New African. "This is the book for those who despair for
Africa, but even more, it is the book for those who despise Africa.
[Guest's writing reveals] his journalist's determinationg
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