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Africa Is Not A Country : Notes On A Bright Continent

Africa Is Not A Country : Notes On A Bright Continent

Faloyin, Dipo, author.
EBook 2022

"An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, Africa has long been painted with a broad brush in Western literature, media, and culture, flattening it into a monolith. In Africa is Not a Country, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counte...

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Africa Foreign public opinion
Africa Politics and government 21st century
Africa Social conditions 21st century
Africa Social life and customs 21st century
National characteristics, African
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ISBN:
9780393881547
Description:
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Notes:
"First published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Vintage, a part of Penguin Random House UK under the title Africa is not a country: breaking stereotypes of modern Africa."
Electronic book
Electronic reproduction. New York W. W. Norton and Company 2022 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
Lagos
By the Power Vested in Me, I Now Pronounce You a Country
The Birth of White Saviour Imagery or How Not to Be a White Saviour While Still Making a Difference
The Story of Democracy in Seven Dictatorships
There Is No Such Thing as an African Accent and Binyavanga Wainaina Is Still Right
The Case of the Stolen Artefacts
Jollof Wars: A Love Story
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3243130
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