JEAN-MICHEL SEVERINO was formerly CEO of the Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and has worked at the World Bank as Director for Central Europe. OLIVIER RAY currently works at AFD. Previously, he worked for the United Nation's Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Security Council Report, on questions of development, conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery.

* Acknowledgements* Foreword by Paul Collier* Introduction* Part One: The Peopling of a Continent* Chapter 1: Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?* Chapter 2: Malthus on CNN* Part Two: Africa on the Move* Chapter 3: A Black Peril?* Chapter 4: Crowded Roads* Part Three: Africa Versus Growth* Chapter 5: The Undiscoverable Curse* Chapter 6: The Great Wheel of Growth* Part Four: When Africa Awakes* Chapter 7: The Great Clean-Up* Chapter 8: Emerging Africa* Part Five: God's Africa* Chapter 9: Urban Compositions* Chapter 10: Crescent and Cross* Chapter 11: Switched-On Africa* Chapter 12: The End of Ethnicity* Chapter 13: African Democracy* Part Six: One March, Three Directions* Chapter 14: Countries of Rent, Countries in Danger* Chapter 15: The Vanguard of Development* Chapter 16: Fragile Africa: One Crisis After Another* Part Seven: Africa, The World's Vitality* Chapter 17: The End of Infinity* Chapter 18: Light Against Darkness* Chapter 19: The Hunger for Land* Chapter 20: The Struggle for Man* Part Eight: The Newcomer at the Feast of Nations* Chapter 21: Africa Courted* Chapter 22: Emerging Powers: Africa's New Exploiters?* Chapter 23: Acknowledging Africa* Conclusion* Maps* Notes* Index