{"product_id":"dayo-olopade-the-bright-continent-9780544483996","title":"The Bright Continent","description":"The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.\" -New York Times Book Review\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. So she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs, driven by kanju-creativity born of African difficulty. It's a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA shining counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa's challenges as opportunities to innovate and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start.\" -Reuters\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"[An] upbeat study of development in Africa...The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.\" -The New Yorker","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53914943193430,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dayo-olopade-the-bright-continent-9780544483996","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}