Nothing in Keith Richburg’s long and respected journalistic career at The Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper’s correspondent in Africa.
He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, and where starvation had become depressingly common.
With a great deal of personal anguish, Richburg faced a difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean to be an African American?
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