Underreported: Good News From Africa

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Most of the news we hear about the African continent is grim. Charles Stith, former US ambassador to Tanzania and a current Professor of International Relations at Boston University, talks about why we don’t hear more good news from Africa, and how this might be affecting African progress. And Brooke Gladstone from On the Media joins in on the discussion.

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