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And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs, driven by \u003ci\u003ekanju\u003c\/i\u003e creativity born of African difficulty. It s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Continent\u003c\/i\u003e rewrites Africa s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist covering global politics, development policy, and technology. Dayo has been a correspondent in Washington and in Nairobi, reporting for publications including \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. 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