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'The New Africa' Camden Conference: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton's Keynote Speech

Brian Bechard
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MPBN
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton appears on MPBN's Maine Calling in Feb. 2016.

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.”

Today we hear from the keynote speaker of the conference, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, West Africa correspondent for National Public Radio News, based in Dakar, Senegal.

For more on Quist-Arcton or the 2016 Camden Conference, click here.