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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/8: featured in Spring round-up
“Dowden's been a journalist in Africa since 1971 and here explains, for Sarah Palin's benefit and ours, that the continent is actually a wide variety of nations. He gives us an in-depth tour.”
O, the Oprah Magazine, April issue
“A deeply informed and informative ‘tough love’ love letter to a continent.”
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Book Review
“We journalists tend to cover Africa in stark and simple contrasts, but countries live and grow and falter in grays. So it’s refreshing to encounter not only Dowden’s hopefulness, but also his reliance on shading and nuance, on the recognition that the world does not have to feel sorry for Africa to care about it.”
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