CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Bright Continent August 22, 2014
Great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. Thank you and thank you for coming. Its great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. I wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist denyer banca pena who wrote that nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. Hes down with the following. Broad brush strokes throughout are good. Avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just...