Journalist Dayo Olopade

I Can Make a Frittata Out of Anything

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.

Africa’s Entrepreneurs Are Young and Restless

With Fast-Growing Economies, Middle-Class Ambitions, and a Boom in Technology, There’s No Waiting Around in Africa

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’ …

A New Map of Africa

The Bright Continent

In the 21st century, the West sees Africa as a problem that needs solving from the outside. But even as they pour in millions of dollars in aid, Westerners don’t …

Africa Is Not a Country

And Other Shocking Things Americans Would Be Better Off Knowing About the Continent

Not to pick on Sarah Palin, but it’s troubling for all Americans when there are rumors that a vice presidential candidate thinks Africa is a country, not a continent. Africa …