Guo Jianlong's new book "Two Hundred Years of Traveling Through Africa"
Newspaper (Reporter Lu Yanxia) Guo Jianlong, an up-and-coming best-selling author of history, visited Africa twice in 2014 and 2017. Recently, Guo Jianlong's new book "Two Hundred Years Through Africa", which was planned by Tianxi Culture and published by Tiandi Publishing House, was released.
As the second part of "Trip Through the Trilogy", "Two Hundred Years Through Africa" describes the author's observations and visits to more than 50 cities in 17 countries in Africa twice, taking the historical context as the classics. The central issues of politics, economy, culture and other issues are discussed in depth, and the history, development and current situation of Africa are discussed in depth, revealing the tortuous course of the African people's continuous exploration of the development path, which is called "a must-read book for understanding Africa".
"In the past two hundred years, the African people have gone through the historical period of being colonized and seeking independence. Now they have entered an important historical stage of seeking economic and social development. Although Africans are still very poor, they are also pursuing modernization. They hope that people will help They broke away from the primitive and entered the modern age. ”Guo Jianlong bluntly re-recognized Africa and reassessed the value of Africa as the original intention of his writing. It is also an important proposition of the times. Africa."
According to Guo Jianlong, due to special historical and cultural reasons, the pre-colonial Africa only had a unified state in North Africa, and the borders and political organizations of the rest of the country were formed in more than 100 years. When talking about the inability to control his own destiny is the origin of chaos in Africa, Guo Jianlong said frankly: "There will be friction in the process from colonization to independence. Only in the friction can people find a real solution. Although this looks cruel, it is The true destiny of many African countries. "
Talking about his true feelings of traveling in Africa, Guo Jianlong said frankly: "When it comes to Africa, most people's impressions are chaos and backwardness, poverty and disease. Those statements are mostly true, but they only represent a stage that Africa has just passed. Now Africa has reached the gate of the next stage. Even though conflicts still occur from time to time in many regions, Africa as a whole has already shown its vitality. "He believes that, as a whole, Africa is the most chaotic stage It has become the past and developed into the main theme.
In order to write this book, Guo Jianlong suffered a sudden malaria in Mopti, known as the "fishing capital" of the Sahara; he was almost kidnapped on the streets of Tripoli; he witnessed the life of a poor boat on the pier next to Komanav. Guo Jianlong said that he was trying to record the real Africa in words through personal inspection: "I want to use a panoramic approach to examine the formation, development and current situation of modern African problems. The retrospect of its causes also has the prospect of future development, and it truly shows the whole picture of Africa from the perspective of historical status and development. "