Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #435028 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

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Customer Reviews

A must for every African!!
This book is, in my opinion, a must for every African. It contains painfully and frighteningly accurate detail about the desolate state of affairs in some of our countries. Answers to most of the unanswered questions posed in this book can be found in Axelle Kabou's "weder arm noch ohnmächtig" (unfortunately only available in French and German; the title translated from German would sound something like "neither poor nor powerless" referring to the idea that we Africans, contrary to what most Africans are made to believe, are primarily responsible for the state of our nations and we have the power to change things. I definitely will recommend Kabou's book to anyone who understands German or French. The language is pretty solid, by the way). Let us try to prove all the pessimists wrong.

Love it or Hate it, but read this book
I have just finished reading Out of America, and it really made me think. I have read many of the reviews posted for this book, and I find good points about the book in many of them. I think Keith Richburg has done us a great service by writing this book, and being honest about how he feels about Africa and his heritage. It is his honesty I think that I admire most, even more so than his obvious writing ability. The message that he brings, that of not being African but American, may not be the popular or politically correct view, but it is how he honestly feels, and his opinion should be respected and his views taken into account as much as anyone's. This book is free speech taken to its higher ideals, expressing views that may not always be akin to those of everyone else, but that are worthy of being expressed.

Out of America; a reevaluation of perception is reality.
Out of America is symbolic of the best we expect from our news reporters; yet rarely receive. Mr Richburg examines the plight of present day Africa and in doing so opens the festering wound of conflicting emotions that we as American have toward the region. In writing this book, the author has shown more courage and conviction to his believes, and the realities of the modern world, than every "popular tele-journalist and popular reporter of the past three decades combined. The reality of the sub-saharan Africa that Mr Richburg viewed, and comments on, is one that we, sitting in our easy chairs around the television, could hardly bring ourselves to face. At the same time, his insight into the views of American society and stereotype force us to look at ourselves with the unabashed nakedness of a Rwandan child caught in the middle of the latest tribal war. This work is not for the weak or the racist of any race, color, or creed. Out of America should be required reading for all government officials, military leaders, and social workers trying to impose "the white man's burden", and "the black man's struggle" on the rest of the world. This reviewer was both deeply moved, and deeply grateful for the publication of this work.