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Review title: baas Guest tells Africans how it's gotta be
Product review: This book basically boils down to arguing that only global capitalism can solve Africa's problems.Guest trawls through a litany of Africa's various humiliations, quickly excluding colonialism and developed countries' trading practises as major contributing factors and presents any solution attempt other than strict laisser faire economics as the sinister workings of some cruel and corrupt natives.There's a patronising tone to the book and sometimes one feels that Guest approaches Africans with a missionary's zeal, waving a copy of the Economist in a way reminiscent of his forefathers (except they waved copies of the bible).His devotion to capitalism seems almost fanatical. For example, when considering the problem of rising unemployment in South Africa he argues that it is simply "largely a consequence of the government's efforts to protect workers" (p 223).
