Online at booktv. Org. Now on booktv, dayo olopade talks about her book, the bright continent at the Chicago Tribune winters road lit fest. The book looks at the new and great ideas that people in Subsaharan Africa are coming up with to do with the global challenges they face today. This is about 45 minutes. Is a thank you, and thanks for coming. Its great to meet you and to the chance to talk about this wonderful book. I want to just start with thatel wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist who wrote that mine glowingly good essay, how to write about africa. Hat 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 make good mundane circumstances. How could the women except in about europe or america and africa. African character
U. S. Government opposite action so that every person who cared about any kind of injustice would email me, see me on the streets and demand you release documents, then of course we have them. If every single let me say this about the question you asked. Every single document in the archives that reveals abusive or improper surveillance for surveillance done for political ends or surveillance that is that a way that is different from how the u. S. Government has been claiming it is done will be published, whether it is published by me or somebody else. Are you talking to Martin Gelman . He talked about more information coming . Theres a good, healthy competition that fuels each of us. I am not talking to Martin Gelman but i hope and expect he will continue to do the reporting he has been doing. Thank you, everybody, so much. I appreciate it. [applause] thank you for joining us and for your thoughtful questions. We now have the book signing. If the number on your ticket is between 1, an
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Neighboring it is togo, which is under 6 million. When you look at echo weiss, the entire west African Economic unity, it jars to be some thing that looks comparable to the Major Economies like brazil and india and china. The east african community, which is kenya, uganda, tanzania, that starts to look like a powerful economic lock. When you look at the southern countries, the same obtains. Subsaharan africa is 800 Million People. So the attraction, at least for the investor class that these sort of big exploding commercials on this more pronounced when you think about africa as interlinked sort of economic communities. From the political level, the more granular sort of regional basis, i think people are so disappointed in national government. It was a story mentioned over in a weekend were like citizens all over the world, people ask themselves what have you done for me lately . Fans are looking on african states is absolutely nothing. Whether its the educational system, the road in
Became a shared public norm but then immediately change peoples behavior. And so, to the extent people are interested in legislative solution and human rights doctors want pronouncements from the government inaction from the secretary of state of the u. S. , i am not sure thats the way to get it up in the problem of in africa. And maybe the longer complicated work of communities to collectively change norms. Its not a satisfying it there, but conforms to my general argument that the government is not where you go for a change in africa. It is peertopeer. Exactly. Why dont you tell us what your name is and where you are from. I am neck here from chicago, just down the street. You touch in your last comment part of the question is going to ask about people not looking to the National Government for help and support. To the extent theres any reporting in this country about africa, to the way that is stereotyped as primarily tribal in nature. He mentioned the importance of family or mauler