enter a world that plays by its own rules written with such rawness that you'll think that author philip finkler must be a hooligan himself some people complain that literature doesn't have enough to do with real life or what could be realer than a punch to the fakes. once upon a time a europeans referred to africa as the dark continent and in many parts of the world african stories still only make it into the news when there are things like political crises disease outbreaks or even environmental disasters which is why a collective of photographers african and non african alike created the instagram account every day africa and the recent annual media conference the global media for on the platform had its own exhibition to shed some light on the stories beyond the headline. very extraordinary and africa beyond the news and the stereotypes these are the images of africa that every day africa wants to get across is. the. u.s. journalist asked to merrill co-founded the project while on assignment in ivory coast. he and another co-founder a photographer were supposed to be telling another typical