MoAD and Shared Interest host a book signing and reception with renowned journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.Ms. Hunter-Gault's book New News Out of Africa offers an optimistic view of Africa's future, revealing that there is more to the continent than the bad news of disease, disaster, and despair. She implies the continent's negative media attention obscures important positive developments in Africa, including the work of organizations such as Shared Interest.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault recently left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, which she had held since 1999, to pursue independent projects. Before joining CNN, she worked from Johannesburg as the chief correspondent in Africa for NPR from 1997 to 1999.
During her tenure at The NewsHour, she won two Emmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work on the series 'Apartheid's People.' She has also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.