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Title: Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
Author: FALOYIN DIPO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/08/2023
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal story.
A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.
‘Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.’ Adam Rutherford
You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.
In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country’s colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular culture.
By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a way that has never been done before.
ISBN: 9781529114829
Pages: 400
Edition: 01