# The Shackled Continent

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- Book: [The Shackled Continent](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-guest/the-shackled-continent) ([The Shackled Continent.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-guest/the-shackled-continent.md))
- Authors: [Robert Guest](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-guest)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-8834-297-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2010-09-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and...