Book Review-Who Fights Who Cares Essay, Research Paper

The book was based on a wide range of contributions, written and verbal, and has been edited together by Alex de Waal. He does not represent any of the views of any individual or government.

The book “Who Fights Who Cares” is a very interesting book. The focus of the book is mainly towards the continent of Africa. Just about every thing that has to do with blacks in Africa will in some way effect African Americans. The book is broken up in to little sections in each chapter. The book talks about the sixteen countries in central Africa. The book breaks down everything that is corrupt in Africa that has to do with blacks.

The first main section in the book talks about why is there war in Africa. There has been many wars in Africa sense the 1970’s. In the 90’s alone there was something like twelve wars in Africa. Many of the wars had been going on for years about the same thing. In Africa they also have wars called the “war next door” meaning that an ongoing conflict in going on during the war. This is what happens in the first part of the book.

The next main section in the book talks about Improvements in military interventions. The people in Africa are saying that they need the unity of command for an effective intervention. They are also saying that if the military in each country were stronger then civilians would not die. The book also says “interventions troops should have public relation officers and humanitarian sections in each part of Africa”. A non- neutral humanitarian assistance is the conclusion to the book. Many African countries

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have experienced humanitarian tragedies. Moral judgement will always be required for some exceptional cases.

In my opinion the book was not that good. I mean it was hard to read in some sections. A lot of it I did not understand. Even though the book was not that good I

learned a lot from the information. The whole experience was a learning process for me. I would not recommend this book to anybody else.