Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

Dipo Faloyin

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Africa Is Not A Country is 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.

Review

Warm, funny, biting and essential reading. -- Adam Rutherford, author of How To Argue With A Racist

A necessary book that deserves its place in the canon as essential reading. -- Sally Hayden ― Irish 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. ― Mail on Sunday, *Summer Reads of 2022*

Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing. -- Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the World

This book should be on the curriculum. -- Nikki May, author of Wahala

About the Author

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 Dazed, i-D, The Huffington Post, Refinery 29, Prospect and others. He was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos and currently lives in London.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Dipo Faloyin
Vydavatel	Harvill Secker Neumarkter Straße 28, 81673 Munich, Germany info@penguinrandomhouse.de https://www.penguinrandomhouse.de/ +49 89 4136-0
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	400
Formát	13,5 × 21,6 cm
EAN	9781787302969
Rok vydání	2022
Edice	Společnost a společenské vědy