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Charlayne Hunter-Gualt discusses the current state of Africa.

Charlayne Hunter-Gualt is best known as the former National Correspondent for PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, where she reported from 1978 to 1997, Hunter-Gault has been bureau chief of CNN International in Johannesburg, South Africa since 1998. Her first job in journalism began in 1963 as a "Talk of the Town" reporter for The New Yorker, and in 1968, she joined the staff of the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter. At The New Yorker and the Times, she specialized in urban affairs, with a focus on the African-American community. As a broadcast journalist, Hunter-Gault has continued to cover domestic urban issues and has also reported from Grenada, the Middle East, and South Africa. For her work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour 1986 series Apartheid's People, Hunter-Gault received one of journalism's highest honors, the George Foster Peabody Broadcast Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. That year, she was also named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. In addition, Hunter-Gault has won two National News and Documentary Emmys, the Sidney Hillman Award for her six-part series Out of Reach: People at the Bottom, and the American Women in Radio and Television Award, among others.