Description: "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 is an experienced and highly respected reporter for the Washington Post who had paid his dues covering the urban neighborhoods of our capital city. But nothing prepared him for the extraordinary personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was sent to Africa to be the Post's chief correspondent on the continent. As he journeys from Somalia to Rwanda to South Africa and observes with increasing horror the routine of murder, brutal dictatorship, starvation, and warfare, he is forced to face directly and come to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. A page-turning read that delves deeply behind today's cultural battlefields, Out of America has provoked intense and heated discussion within both black and white communities.

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