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Article: An insightful and visceral account of a failed state.(Entertainment)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2007
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BYLINE: Reviewed by James Mitchell
From Africa to Afghanistan: With Richards and Nato to Kabul
by Greg Mills
Wits University Press R190
If you yawn at the prospect of a worthy tome by some fundi who spent a decade running the SA Institute of International Affairs, or who now bosses something called the Brenthurst Foundation, be not afraid. Consider this back-cover description from Independent Newspapers' Peter Fabricius: Author Dr Greg Mills, he writes, is "in his best journo-GI-egghead mode, ducking bullets as he dispenses advice on how to solve the Afghanistan conundrum".
That's right. Mills is that rare creature: an ...