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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa Paperback - 2015
by Dayo Olopade
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For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start. Reuters
Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs, driven by kanju creativity born of African difficulty. It s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world.
[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension. The New Yorker
Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist covering global politics, development policy, and technology. Dayo has been a correspondent in Washington and in Nairobi, reporting for publications including TheAtlantic, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She holds BA, JD, and MBA degrees from Yale University, and currently lives in New York."
Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs, driven by kanju creativity born of African difficulty. It s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world.
[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension. The New Yorker
Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist covering global politics, development policy, and technology. Dayo has been a correspondent in Washington and in Nairobi, reporting for publications including TheAtlantic, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She holds BA, JD, and MBA degrees from Yale University, and currently lives in New York."
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- Title The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
- Author Dayo Olopade
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, MA
- Date 2015-03-10
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780544483996 / 0544483995
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: Central Africa
- Interdisciplinary Studies: African
- Library of Congress subjects Africa, Sub-Saharan - Economic conditions -, Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions -
- Dewey Decimal Code 967.033
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- New York Times Book Review, 04/12/2015, Page 28
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