{"product_id":"the-bright-continent-breaking-rules-and-making-change-in-modern-africa-dayo-olopade","title":"The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa;  Dayo Olopade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrica is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social adaptation driving the past decade of African development. Dayo Olopade set out across sub-Saharan Africa to find out how ordinary people are dealing with the challenges they face every day. She discovered an unexpected resilient, joyful, and innovative, a continent of DIY changemakers and impassioned community leaders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEverywhere Olopade went, she witnessed the specific creativity born from African difficulty—a trait she began calling kanju. It’s embodied by bootstrapping innovators like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned his low-budget, straight-to-VHS movies into a multimillion-dollar film industry known as Nollywood. Or Soyapi Mumba, who helped transform cast-off American computers into touchscreen databases that allow hospitals across Malawi to process patients in seconds. Or Ushahidi, the Kenyan technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bright Continent calls for a necessary shift in our thinking about Africa. Olopade shows us that the increasingly globalized challenges Africa faces can and must be addressed with the tools Africans are already using to solve these problems themselves. Africa’s ability to do more with less—to transform bad government and bad aid into an opportunity to innovate—is a clear ray of hope amidst the dire headlines and a powerful model for the rest of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 14, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eDayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist covering global politics and development policy. She has reported for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoot\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. Dayo is currently a Knight Law and Media Scholar at Yale Law School. She lives in Chicago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49494980788546,"sku":"","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/brightcontinent.jpg?v=1722448909","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/the-bright-continent-breaking-rules-and-making-change-in-modern-africa-dayo-olopade","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}