Our Kind of People: A Continent’s Challenge, A Country’s Hope
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Weekend Edition: ‘Our Kind’: Unpacking Misconceptions About AIDS
A new book about global attitudes to the AIDS epidemic in Africa says lays some of the blame at writer Joseph Conrad’s door. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, says author Uzodinma Iweala, connected inferiority and disease with Africans in way which is still evident today. Host Scott Simon talks the author about Our Kind of People.
