Journalist Dayo Olopade is the author of The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa. She is currently a Knight Law and Media Scholar at Yale University, where she is in the JD/MBA program. Before talking about homegrown innovation in Africa, she explained why it would be better to be the bassist in U2 than Barack Obama in the Zócalo green room.
Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade spent two years traveling through 17 African countries. But it’s still difficult for her to talk about the continent, she told a crowd at The Actors’ …
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