"Africa Is Not A Country" By Dipo Faloyin (Part I)

"Africa Is Not A Country" By Dipo Faloyin (Part I)

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in January 2023. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In his new book, Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. Weaving a tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa’s rich diversity, communities, and histori…