clipped from: www.thenational.ae 
On this map, the territories are sized in proportion to the number of people in each country who died from diseases classified by the World Health Organization as “easily preventable”. Courtesy worldmapper.org
Fortunately, the University of Nebraska Press has broken with this trend. It recently published In The United States of Africa, by the Djiboutian writer Abdourahman Waberi, a novel that seems entirely concerned with the question of “what if?” What if Africa were the world’s locus of power? What if Europe and America were the third world? How would one perceive, think and speak about each continent? Which races and ethnicities would be described with specific and nuanced expressions – and which with vague and essentialist phrases?