Return of the Native (review of Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, by Keith Richburg)

Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, by Keith Richburg (New Republic/Basic, 257 pp., $24)

“HONEST” is the word that best characterizes Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, by Keith Richburg. However, honesty seems like too homely a virtue to stress for a book that offers much knowledge and insight about Africa and about reactions to Africa among both black and white Americans. Unfortunately, just as common sense is not common, so honesty is a rare and startlingly, almost shocking, quality in a book dealing with race.

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Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, by Keith Richburg (New Republic/Basic, 257 pp., $24)

“HONEST” is the word that best characterizes Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, by Keith Richburg. However, honesty seems like too homely a virtue to stress for a book that offers much knowledge and insight about Africa and about reactions to Africa among both black and white Americans. Unfortunately, just as common sense is not common, so honesty is a rare and startlingly, almost shocking, quality in a book dealing with race.