Seek ye first the political kingdom, "and allthe rest shall be added unto you," exhorted Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first head of state and Africa's premier nationalist.
Now more than 30 years and some 70 coups later, all the rest has not been added-and some things even have been subtracted from Africa. Today, its per-capita income is lower than it was 30 years ago, and 70 percent of the world's poorest nations are in Africa. In his recent Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent...