"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. " 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.
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.
Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief.
It\'s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood.
She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs, driven by kanju --creativity born of African difficulty.
And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. "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
