Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African 9780639600499 where strangers are never simple

where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences

overhanging threat

New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons - and their wits

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Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African 9780639600499 where strangers are never simpleBottled is the first assessment of the social, commercial and environmental impact of one of the planet's biggest brands and largest corporations, in Africa. Sara Byala charts the company's century long involvement in everything from recycling and education to the anti apartheid struggle, showing that Africans have harnessed Coca Cola in varied expressions of modernity and self determination: this is not a story of American capitalism running amok,