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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 ....
Great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. Thank you and thank you for coming. Its great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. I wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist denyer banca pena who wrote that 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 characters should be colorful, exotic, larger than life, but empty inside with no dialogue, no complex resolutions in their stories come in no kirks to confuse the cause. Perhaps we could start there since it seems to me that your book is precisely what hes advocating in his essay and that i ....
Allies won every major piece of legislation in the Committee Chairmen had a rule that we would not to a major piece of legislation without a member of the other party being a principal cosponsor. You can do it. He is right about social mediate and cable news. They are a disaster for good sensible debate but you need leadership. The or the great giants of the senate today . And i dont see any and any frankly president ial leadership. With at it twice in my lifetime. One was Ronald Reagan the there was bill clinton and both times you had successful presidencies and they both came to the white house with the agenda of the they fought for and changed their own parties to make the country better. I will use my moderator discretion we will ask those three questions then give very brief response is. We are not good listeners governor, the social democracies of europe by many metr ....
In terms of generating these this analytical thinking is qualify them. You can make a lot of money. De question from both of you. And and his, it seemed that both of you have missed the fact that when you raise the minimum wage are many businesses that will not be able to be created that the causes too high. These businesses would have hired not only people who work below minimum wage, but the theory of the people all the way up the wage letter. This is even a bigger loss. I can tell in not going to resolve the questions. One minute marry can have it if she wants. Here we have time for one more question. Of the tnc first. Chrysler job creation. You make a good point. The money, the thing is, the minimum wage is almost like it sets a standard in cant create jobs were workers to of least 10. 10 an hour worth of work. Then maybe in a modern economy there are not jobs that need to be created. Dont know. If i could address, you are exactly right. That is what we mean. Businesses are destroy ....