without further ado comic is a great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. >> thank you and thank you for coming. it's great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. i wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great t denyer bnca >> >> i avoid having the african characters laugh to educate their kids. and to eliminate something and african characters should be careful and exotic them larger than life. budget savings to me your book is precisely what he is advocating instead say that is the portrayal of africans as people with their own agency. with the sense of destiny. for you just fed up with the way africa was being reported god called poverty pour? >> yes. that is the short answer. i am glad you chose this particular essay that has a lot of residents and write-in about fiction and then to replicate even the most recent weeks with a story set has cut our attention in has been the awful kidnapping of schoolchildren rather than decades or weeks or months or years of economic development. it is hard to grab the attention when

great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. >> thank you and thank you for coming. it's great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. i wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist denyer banca pena who wrote that nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. he's down with the following. broad brush strokes throughout are good. avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just make good mundane circumstances. how could the women except in about europe or america and africa. african characters should be colorful, exotic, larger than life, but empty inside with no dialogue, no complex resolutions in their stories come in no kirks to confuse the cause. perhaps we could start there since it seems to me that your book is precisely what he's advocating in his essay and that is a portrayal of africans as people with their own agency. and idiosyncrasies and a sense of dest

[applause] >> thank you for attending today's session thank you tour moderator, doug foster and our great author, ms. olopade. her great hook, "the bright continent: breaking rules and making change in modern africa" on the main lobby. she will be signing copies of his out of the auditorium for anyone spec i appreciate this beenoience so much i have >> , i find this is one of the greatest meetings of the minds ever conceived. you can go from a session on confucius versus st. thomas aquinas to it debate between gold and bit one. they are covering the waterfront in this conferenceaterfront. now between seven and 10 debates one on one i think of these as the terms as the william f. buckley's firing blind. that is how it began. we debate both sides and don'ts to interrupt each other. the presenters get to have 10 minutes to present their case than six minutes for rebuttal and to answer what of the questions they can thank their time is your original presentation is eight minutes they can save that for the rejoinder then we have the least 10 minutes were the questions and my job here is to tak

without further ado comic is a great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. >> thank you and thank you for coming. it's great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. i wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist denyer banca pena who wrote that nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. he's down with the following. broad brush strokes throughout are good. avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just make good mundane circumstances. how could the women except in about europe or america and africa. african characters should be colorful, exotic, larger than life, but empty inside with no dialogue, no complex resolutions in their stories come in no kirks to confuse the cause. perhaps we could start there since it seems to me that your book is precisely what he's advocating in his essay and that is a portrayal of africans as people with their own agency. and idiosy