Win Africa is Not a Country paperbacks for your reading group
Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.
To celebrate paperback publication, Vintage are offering 5 reading groups the chance to win 10 paperback copies each. You can also download the attached PDF for a summary of some of the key discussion points covered.
To enter the giveaway, just email [email protected] with the subject line ‘RA: Africa is Not a Country’ by 30 April. Winners will be chosen randomly via prize draw on 2 May.
About the book:
You already know the stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.
In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country’s colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular culture.
By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a way that has never been done before.
‘Warm, funny, biting and essential reading’ Adam Rutherford
‘Made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa’ Oliver Bullough
‘This book should be on the curriculum’ Nikki May
‘A truly revelatory read…one that opens a new chapter on the way you’ll think about Africa’ Mail on Sunday
Downloads and links
- Document https://tra-resources.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/entries/document/6650/AINAC_SIS.pdf
- Find out more about Africa is Not a Country https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444389/africa-is-not-a-country-by-faloyin-dipo/9781529114829
Contact
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