Africa is Not A Country
Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
Dipo Faloyin
Having read it
★★★★★
Nuanced, insightful, funny, honest and well composed, written and delivered; all of it could be quoted and it is definitely worth more than five stars out of five!
It’s a must read for everyone and, like Nikki May is quoted on it’s cover saying it should indeed be on the curriculum as there is much to respect and better understand and learn from in it.
A good passage
Arrive, manipulate, negotiate with a European adversary, conquer, move on. That’s how 90 per cent of an entire continent was reformed by a handful of determined countries. All that was left was to draw some physical borders with the same care and consideration that brought the conquest in the first place.
A note: if you ever find yourself in a rush to invent an entire country because you fear all the good land will soon be taken by others, you may discover it’s easy to overlook certain details that at first glance appear inconsequential. Yet, in time, after you’ve moved on to new adventures, they will begin to moulder and rot away, collapsing everything you built on top of them.