why so much focus on the book? you think back people have been writing mem worls for a long time, but we live in an era when it is very, very possible for people around the world to read something, this excerpt and spopd to it in real time and fact check in real time. and this was a manuscript that was hurtful to a lot of people because it presented an image of a country that was stereo typed and people got up in arms about it. i think sometimes it wasn t a big book. as you a, it was self published. it s not like it was coming out from a big publisher. but such is the world that we in, the sponlssiveness of social media and also the sensitivity of people saying, look, don t try to tell our story. people from zambia said you are presenting an image of our country that s true. and we have a voice to say