Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Why every book about Africa has the same cover


Credit: Simon Stevens/The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/why-every-book-about-africa-has-the-same-cover/362101/ / Africa Is a Country blog documents skewers Western misconceptions Africa book design 36 covers books set in Africa written by African writers text texts books as diverse geography they covered Nigeria Zimbabwe South Africa Botswana Zambia Mozambique written wildly divergent styles writers several Nobel Prize winners books cover covers featured acacia tree orange sunset veld covers novels Africa designed principal idea continent The Lion King /