Charlayne Hunter-Gault urges Clevelanders to rethink Africa

By Pete Kotz on Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 5:32 pm

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault helped integrate the University of Georgia as a student in the 1960s, served as Harlem bureau chief for the New York Times during the Black Panther movement, and won awards for her coverage of South Africa on PBS. After 10 years in Johannesburg, reporting for CNN and NPR, she’s seen her fair share of dysfunction, corruption, and poverty. Yet her assessment of Africa’s progress makes it sound better, at least in some ways, than Cleveland…