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**The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves** Africa is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social adaptation driving the last decade of African development. Dayo Olopade set out across sub-Saharan Africa to find out how ordinary people are dealing with the challenges they face every day. She found an unexpected Africa: resilient, joyful, and innovative, a continent of DIY changemakers and impassioned community leaders. Everywhere Olopade went, she witnessed the specific creativity born from African difficulty—a trait she began calling __kanju.__ It’s embodied by bootstrapping innovators like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned his low-budget, straight-to-VHS movies into a multi-million dollar film industry known as Nollywood. Or Soyapi Mumba, who helped transform cast-off American computers into touchscreen databases that allow hospitals across Malawi to process patients in seconds. Or Ushahidi, the Kenyan technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief.__The Bright Continen

Who reads The bright continent : breaking rules and making change in modern Africa?

Author

Dayo Olopade

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547678313

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (226 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14