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Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
Oxford University Press
June 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 0195177479
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and
two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of
Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault was until recently the
Johannesburg Bureau Chief for CNN. In New News Out of
Africa, this
eminent reporter offers a fresh and surprisingly optimistic
assessment of modern Africa, revealing that there is more to
the continent than the bad news of disease, disaster, and
despair. Blending personal memoir with sterling reportage and astute
analysis, Hunter Gault presents an Africa we rarely see. She
looks first at South Africa, contrasting the country she
first encountered as a young reporter--when she personally
witnessed the brutality of apartheid--with the black-led,
multiracial society of today, a nation undergoing one of the
most radical social and economic experiments in modern
times. She acknowledges the great imbalance in income in
modern South Africa (where upwards of 30 to 40 percent of
blacks are unemployed) and describes the ravaging effect of
AIDS on
the nation, but she also underscores the nation's commitment
to affirmative action, describes how South African
universities have opened their doors to black students, and
debunks many of the myths about the violence of South
African society. Likewise, Hunter-Gault looks at the
continent-wide
efforts to promote "an African Renaissance," illuminating
the political and economic conditions in Rwanda, Mozambique,
Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Angola, and Sierra Leone. Finally,
the book describes the challenges of reporting on the
much-maligned continent and the efforts of African
journalists to
tell their own story. A compelling book on a topic of vital importance, New News
Out of Africa promises to re-define what is news about this
vast and complex continent.
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