as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by the pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, it s a great pleasure to meet you, and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago. you said, moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist. you ve been at this cartooning for pretty much four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. laughter when i was doing five or six cartoons a week, i would sometimes wonder what the hell i m going to do today, and you wake up in the morning and the news itjust keeps coming. it would happen to cartoonists everywhere in the world because that s what drives all of us, i m sure. anyone who takes this craft, or this genre of communication seriously. but in a place like south africa, the news just hits you from every angle every day at an unbelievable rate. i wonder whether there s something personal about this outrage, which clearly developed quite young in you. you had a lot of trauma in your family
hello, everyone. i am here with kennedy, jessica this is the five. tyrone, joey jones, kennedy. katie: and he s out o and he is out of office. well, not yet. president biden using the kids upstairs instead of and stepping foot down. for the long holiday weekend. joe is hoping for rest and relaxation. nearly 2,000 miles away from all the problems he is facing in washington. which now includes an impeachment inquiry. his sons son s two indictments. the big guys already on our the time. skipping a year and news conference. not surprising why he is supporting the prospect of a man, who would want to answer a question on what you have the worst year end rating of any modern president seeking reelection. but and probably also wants to get away from democrats bickering over whether he has a shot at a second term. former candidate -dash. i think trauma can win. he could win in pennsylvania. i think the thing that biden has to do is he has to in march of the youth vote
also a resident and dear chiefs fan, former missouri senator was at the event and got herself a selfie with the president. so, congrats to clare and all the chiefs kingdom for the super bowl victory. and on that victorious note, i wish you a good night. to all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with. me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you for joining. us so we spent 21 years of spying against the united states. he did it for money and who knows what else. but they did pay, him they paid him in cash. i also paid him in diamonds. which is a nice spy movie touch. but he s putting as the race for 21 years. and then, for the next 21 years after that, he resulted in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america, and then 21 years and counting in prison because of its. before he died today. in prison, at the age of 79. it was stopped the presses huge national news, when they first caught in 2009. from nbc news
that is all in. and i ll be back sunday at noon eastern for my show with jen psaki. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, jen. they ve already got you working triple time in. something like that. well, this is it down side of being very good of what you re doing then you have to do more and more of it. thank you. i had a pretty good time. an hour went quickly. some interesting things. i felt the same. that s a very good sign. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s good to be here. so he spent 21 years spying against the united states, he did it for money and who knows what else, but they did pay him. they paid him in cash. they also paid him in diamonds, which is a nice spy movie touch. but he spied against the u.s. for 21 years, and for the next 21 years after that he resided in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison because of it before