'Africa 2025, What possible futures for sub-Saharan Africa?' edited by Alioune Sall

What will Africa be like in 2025? Today's realities include civil wars running over generations, hundreds of thousands of child soldiers, street children, brutalised women, mutilated ex-soldiers, a brain drain; and life expectancies, economies, health and education dramatically set back by HIV/Aids. The prescriptions of neo-liberalism and open economies, reinforced by western-style aspirations fed by Big Brother-type TV shows hitting record audiences, will do nothing to challenge these grim trends.