"A refreshing alternative to the dismal views of Africa's prospects that pervade the press."--
Kirkus Reviews"An incisive, informative work that provides a balanced perspective on the continent's recent past, transformative present and potentially rich future.... Widespread AIDS, constant internal strife and corrupt, shaky economies form the largely media-driven image of Africa that many Americans possess, argues veteran correspondent Hunter-Gault in this skillful blend of memoir, reportage and political analysis."--
Publishers Weekly"Hunter-Gault promises to redefine what is news about the vast and complex continent and its people and its hopeful future that have been, until now, all but invisible to the outside world."--
Ebony Magazine"In
New News Out of Africa, we have a journalistic work of remarkable insight and prescience: Hunter-Gault zooms in on Africa's ongoing renaissance--reporting on a subject today's media have ignored--and encourages us all to sit up and take note."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"Good news is usually not associated with Africa. However, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Hunter-Gault puts a different spin on her assessment of the continent's current conditions, presenting a well-researched, fact-filled account of recent positive changes in Africa."--
Library Journal"Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been one of a handful of Western journalists providing informed and insightful coverage of Africa that has cut through the muffling stereotypes obscuring the outside world's view of the continent.
New News Out of Africa is at once a deeply personal and politically astute assessment of the struggles of the African renaissance, particularly with regard to the critical role of the media and journalists, African and foreign, that really is something new and hopeful."--Bruce Berman, Director of the Research Program in Ethnicity and Democratic Governance, Queen's University