Books by Erin Acampo Hern

5. Erin Accampo Hern, Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart .  I found this book highly readable and instructive, but I find it more convincing if you reverse the central conclusion.  There is too much talk of the Seychelles and Mauritius, and is Gabon the big success story on the Continent?  Population is 2.3 million, the country ranks 112th in the Human Development Index, and almost half the government budget is oil revenue.  Still, this book “tells you how things actu...