The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise." - New York Times Book Review "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...
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"A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise." - New York Times Book Review "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
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- Autor: Dayo Olopade
- 2015, 274 Seiten, 23 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,2 x 20,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0544483995
- ISBN-13: 9780544483996
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2015
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Englisch
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