Condensed, edited Review of Review by Nicolas van de Walle:

[H]is book illustrates the enduring influence of the colonial era: its primary subject is Anglophone Africa, and the material on Francophone and Lusophone Africa is rather perfunctory, reflecting the fact that media and governments in the colonial powers continue to see the continent through the lens of the places their countries used to control.

Nicolas van de Walle, Book Reviewer, Foreign Affairs, Volume 95, Number 5 [September/October 2016 Issue] at 189 on the book, Africa’s Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent, by KEITH SOMERVILLE. Hurst, 2016 500 pp.

Also mentioned: “trenchant analysis of Rwandan genocide” and liberation theology and their aftermaths.

Quotes in main body of this review are condensed from a Book Review by Reviewer Nicolas van de Walle for the Foreign Affairs periodical.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/africas-long-road-since-independence-the-many-histories-of-a-continent-by-keithsomerville-foreignaffairs-reviewofanicolasvandewallbookreview