As the CEO of The Africa Center, he is dedicated to promoting new narratives about Africa and its Diaspora. The writer Teju Cole described Africa Is a Country as “basically the inside of my head.” His book, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, was published on May Day 2019. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa and as a journalist. Anderson Tepper is curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. His article on Wainaina, “A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing,” appeared in The New York Times last May.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 07, 2024 03:17 UTC