The newest issue of the incomparable journal Foreign Affairs has several short reviews of books on Africa. The topics of the books under review include Botswana’s economic successes, another book on that country’s military, the failure to establish democratic institutions in the Republic of Congo, Africa’s political economy, and the role of Africa in the world.
Two stories from IRIN underscore one of the big public health issues in Africa today. Maternal and infant mortality is not just a problem in Congo-Brazzaville and Ghana, though those two countries are attempting, as are so many sub-Saharan African countries, to get to grips with the reality that the birth of a child is not an uncomplicatedly joyous experience given the high death rates for both mother and child.
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