The African continent is a difficult puzzle to understand for most of its outside observers. It is often analyzed from categories that reduce him to a reality too simple, or is seen from one end which places the emphasis on tribal violence, epidemics or famines. In colonial heritage and meet other curses first African chronic Jon Lee Anderson, which demonstrates once again why he is considered one of the best journalists in the world. With a courage that borders on the reckless, the author delves into places and situations limit, total chaos and violence, later telling observed with great objectivity. Rarely it allowed to take sides, which becomes much more effective his account of such complicated realities presencia.En their reports from Liberia, Angola, Sao Tome, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Guinea, Sudan and, of course, the Libya Gaddafi last days, Jon Lee Anderson gets direct access to the highest echelons of power, revealing what their readers are populated the minds of the leaders, including some of the bloodiest dictators. At the same time, it is given the time to know the story of the common man, to achieve give voice to those who invariably suffer the excesses of the tyrants and bitter political struggles. The result is a synthesis that does justice to what happens in such a fascinating continent as a complex, full of subtleties and nuances. The sharp eye on Africa Jon Lee Anderson is far from the stereotypes that are commonly associated in the Western world.