Ceridwen Dovey is a South African born novelist who now lives in New York. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Harvard in 2003, Dovey returned to South Africa to write[…]
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You have to hand it to Angelina, Dovey says.
Dovey: I mean you gotta hand it to, like, Angelina Jolie. You know she could just sit at home in a nice house. I sort of appreciate that she tries. I mean I’m not sure what I think about her adoption addiction, but you know. And Natalie Portman now, for example, is now really involved in African micro financing organizations. And I think that’s great, you know? I think . . . I think all African countries need as much help as . . . as they can get. And I’m not sure . . . You know, Bono and what he does . . . You know certainly there’s, you know, people who use it in ways that are just about a kind of ego boosting for themselves. But yeah.
Recorded on: 12/6/07
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