”Thank God my nameless ancestor - brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons - made it out alive. Thank God I am an American.” Keith Richburg discusses his time in Africa in the 1990s.

2020-11-04

Episode 20 of MUD BETWEEN YOUR TOES , is a conversation with KEITH RICHBURG, an American journalist who spent more than 30 years working for The Washington Post. He chats to me, about his time spent in Africa between 1991 and 1994 from which he wrote a provocative, best-selling book, Out of America. A black man confronts Africa. Richburg’s book provoked controversy in the African American community due to its perceived criticism of Africans. Photo: Keith Richburg. Listen to Mud B...

Episode 20 of MUD BETWEEN YOUR TOES , is a conversation with KEITH RICHBURG, an American journalist who spent more than 30 years working for The Washington Post. He chats to me, about his time spent in Africa between 1991 and 1994 from which he wrote a provocative, best-selling book, Out of America. A black man confronts Africa.

Richburg’s book provoked controversy in the African American community due to its perceived criticism of Africans.

Photo: Keith Richburg.

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