SlorgNet on 19 April 2008
Africa is:
the jaw-dropping films of Ousmane Sembene and Diop Djibril Mambety.
The world-class novels of Naguib Mahfouz and Nawal al-Sadawi.
The Nobel-prize-winning plays of Wole Soyinka.
Heroic struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism.
Democracy movements in South Africa and Ghana.
Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music.
1 billion people who survived three of the greatest tragedies of human history -- slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism -- and are now going to make their own history, and prosper.
