Book Discussion - Africa Is Not a Country
Details
For this meeting, we’ll be discussing Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin. A comprehensive survey of the diverse cultural and political landscapes across the African continent that critiques the historical and contemporary misconceptions of the region as a monolith.
Length: 400 pages | ~9.5 hrs audiobook
Book Description
Too often, the Western imagination treats Africa as a single, tragic entity defined solely by poverty and strife. Dipo Faloyin offers a necessary and witty corrective, tracing the continent's story from the arbitrary, "sandbox" borders drawn by European powers at the 1884 Berlin Conference to the modern-day pulse of metropolises like Lagos.
Here is a lecture and interview with the author that provides excellent context on the book’s central themes and the "stereotypes of modern Africa": Dipo Faloyin — Africa Is Not a Country