Review: The Africans

After reading David Lambs The Arabs I was curious to read its precursor, The Africans, about his time in Nairobi, Kenya covering all of Africa for the Los Angeles Times during the early 1980s. Unlike The Arabs, The Africans has unfortunately not been updated since it was originally written and so a lot of the information is pretty dated being that it's 20yrs old. Having said that, it was a bit disheartening to read this old information and feel like not much had changed in most of the African countries that he discusses, other than the name of the dictators in power. Other than that, the style and tone of The Africans was a bit more preachy/soap boxy and less refined in terms of flow than that of The Arabs. Overall a decent, quick read, but I would look else where for a more current overview of Africa.