Africa: Continent and the Danger of the Single Story

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Most of the world is well aware of the very real problems that exist on the African continent. I just wish that most of the world were also as aware of the very original and modern attempts being made by Africans to solve some of these problems.

The late Chinua Achebe, our literary father, was fond of recounting an old proverb that says, "the reason the hunter is always victorious is that the lion does not have a storyteller."

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