African Madness - Hardcover

Shoumatoff, Alex

3.74

31 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394569148 ISBN 13: 9780394569147

Publisher: Knopf, 1988

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Tells the stories of Dian Fossey, the murdered gorilla researcher, the Emperor Bokassa, life in modern Madagascar, and the search for the source of the AIDS virus

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Alex Shoumatoff was formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker and is now contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the author of nine previous books and lives in upstate New York with his wife and five children

From Publishers Weekly:

On numerous trips to Africa, Shoumatoff, a staff writer for the New Yorker , found havoc everywhere. In Uganda, Zaire and Guinea-Bissau, the AIDS epidemicspread mainly by heterosexual intercoursehas been met with suicides and denial. In the island nation of Madagascar, environmental catastrophe threatens a lush tropical paradise. Shoumatoff ( In Southern Light , Russian Blood ) flew to the Central African Republic expecting to refute rumors that homicidal ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bohassa practiced cannibalism; instead he found evidence that the deposed psychotic and sex maniac ate his own people. The remaining piece in this tapestry of four articles (originally published in Vanity Fair and the New Yorker ) is a profile of gorilla expert Dian Fossey, murdered in 1985. He discovered that the gutsy feminist primatologist called the natives "woggiepoos" and probably tortured poachers. Shoumatoff's love of the African continent, its fertile potential and enchantment, pulsates through these engaging pieces.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.