Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Africa Reality Check
News of the ebola outbreak in Western Africa has cast a shadow over the summit of African heads of state and business leaders in Washington this week. But African leaders are trying to change the narrative coming out of this meeting. Our collective American view of Africa is often one of disfunction, disease, war, ethnic tensions.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNews of the ebola outbreak in Western Africa has cast a shadow over the summit of African heads of state and business leaders in Washington this week. But African leaders are trying to change the narrative coming out of this meeting. Our collective American view of Africa is often one of disfunction, disease, war, ethnic tensions. And that attitude may mean that we miss out on an explosion of economic opportunity in the region.
