Opinion: Africa is a dawning success; so why do outsiders think only of poverty and deprivation?

by Jonathan Berman “There are children starving in Africa. Eat your peas.” Surely I am not the only person whose first impressions of Africa were shaped along these lines. Whether it was your mother excoriating you about wasting food or an advertisement for Oxfam showing malnourished babies, the earliest impression of Africa many of us have... Read More