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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    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.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 5, 2014 • 1 min read

    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. And that attitude may mean that we miss out on an explosion of economic opportunity in the region.

    The full episode

    1 of 6
    Doing Business in Africa, Saving Kodak and Indie Sci-Fi
    1. 0:00Africa Reality CheckYou’re reading this
    2. 7:58Doing Business in Africa
    3. 15:55Saving Kodak
    4. 25:46Wine and the Drought
    5. 31:04Shadows in the Vineyard
    6. 40:59Indie Sci-fi
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Dayo Olopade

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    The full episode

    1 of 6
    Doing Business in Africa, Saving Kodak and Indie Sci-Fi
    1. 0:00Africa Reality CheckYou’re reading this
    2. 7:58Doing Business in Africa
    3. 15:55Saving Kodak
    4. 25:46Wine and the Drought
    5. 31:04Shadows in the Vineyard
    6. 40:59Indie Sci-fi
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