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For more than forty years since the major transformation in agriculture known as the “Green Revolution,” the world has had the technological ability to produce high-yield crops. Yet while this innovation succeeded in alleviating famine in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition and related diseases – most of them in Africa and most of them children. Hunger claims more lives in Africa than AIDS and malaria combined. Now, with a precarious economy and the rising costs of wheat and corn, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.


In the West, we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Roger Thurow & co-author Scott Kilman suggest that, in the past few decades, American, British and European policies have kept Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading about a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.


Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries, including two dozen in Africa. He has received several awards for his coverage of topics ranging from the culture and business of sports to race relations in the U.S. He and Kilman have produced a stream of page-one stories in the Journal that have broken new ground in the understanding of famine and food aid. Their stories on three 2003 famines made them finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

--Adapted from Public Affairs

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