The Bright Continent

<strong>The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.<br/></strong><br/>A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise. --<em>New York Times Book Review </em><br/><br/>Dayo 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 <em>kanju</em>--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. <br/><br/>A shining counterpoint to the conventional wisdom <em> The Bright Continent </em>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. <br/><br/><br/>For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works The Bright Continent is a good place to start. --Reuters <br/><br/><br/>[An] upbeat study of development in Africa...The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension. --<em>The New Yorker </em>