Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he began teaching in September 2008. From 1986 to 2008, Howard was a reporter for The New York Times, and 18 of those years, from 1990 to 2008, were spent working overseas... read more
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Africa first captivated New York Times journalist Howard W. French more than twenty-five years ago, but his knowledge of and passion for the continent has the depth of a lifetime association. His experiences there awakened him as nothing before to… read more
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An extraordinarily learned look at the history of cities, their lives and their problems from Sumer, Memphis, ancient China and Rome to the cities of today’s world.
John Reader wrote one of the best books on Africa in the last 10-20 years, “Africa, A Biography of the Continent,” and he has shown his versatiliy and virtuosity here with this typically industrious effort.
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