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Mark Sappenfield
Here is a sentence in today’s story about Botswana’s new president: “Five decades later, the former human rights lawyer leads one of Africa’s most prosperous states, lauded for bucking what’s known as the ‘resource curse’ and using its diamond deposits to vastly reduce poverty.”
When was the last time you read a sentence like that about Africa? I’ve long felt one of the ways the Monitor can most bless the world is by breaking through facile narratives about Africa to show a different picture. Keletso Thobega’s story today is a beautiful example.
