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" 'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford, author of Control Africa Is Not A Countryis a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. 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. 'Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing . It made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa.' Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World'This book should be on the curriculum.' Nikki May, author of WAHALA "
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Biographisches: " Dipo Faloyin is a senior editor and writer at VICE , where his work has a specific focus on culture, race and identity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His writing has also featured in the Guardian , Esquire , Newsweek , Dazed , i-D , Refinery 29 , Prospect and others. He was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos and currently lives in London." Rezension(2): "Irish Times: Warm, funny, biting and essential reading. " Rezension(3): "Mail on Sunday, *Summer Reads of 2022*: A necessary book that deserves its place in the canon as essential reading. " Rezension(4): "New York Times:For curious minds... a truly revelatory read. Faloyin writes with humour...well-researched...it's a book that will stay with you long after you've finished - and one that opens a new chapter on the way you'll think about Africa." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 15, 2022 Vice senior editor Faloyin debuts with a spirited critique of Western misrepresentations of Africa. Aiming to puncture the myth that Africa is “a place where nothing but misery grows,” he links the 1884 Berlin Conference, which created arbitrary borders that disbursed ethnic groups across multiple countries, or, conversely, forced rival groups together, to more recent foreign interventions to “save” Africa from poverty, disease, and civil war. Noting that less than 10% of Africa is under authoritarian rule, Faloyin highlights grassroots efforts to hold governments accountable and argues that “the further the continent gets from the damage wrought by colonialism and the early ethnic battles and civil wars following independence, the more each country’s attention will be focused on developing the common good.” He also examines how Live Aid concerts and other fundraising efforts reveal the “complicated balance between making a difference in the world and doing more harm than good,” rehashes the controversy over a documentary about Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, and highlights how the film Black Panther revealed audiences’ hunger for “a richly depicted Africa.” Flashes of joy and humor—including an account of British chef Jamie Oliver’s ill-fated attempt to create a “hybrid verson” of jollof rice—enliven the proceedings. The result is an exuberant and informative introduction to one of the world’s most diverse continents."
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