motherfuckers will say how things are “in Africa” like it’s one big place that’s homogenous throughout
but god forbid you say “Britain” when you mean “England”
(via empiricalcrescent)
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April 10, 2013
April 8, 2013
Let’s Talk About First World Problems…
Is your latte too hot? Mine was this morning. I was at the bustling Oasis shopping center in Kampala, Uganda, and I took one sip and then spilt it all over me. You know who else has these problems? The local Ugandans that frequent this shop, and make up the majority of it’s clientele.
As Africa stabilizes across the continent, Westerners forget that average daily problems in Europe or North America are not that far off from that of the African middle class. Our smart phones sometimes freeze up. That’s annoying. The DJ is playing shit, so we leave the club.
Which is not to say that there aren’t problems. It’s not to pretend that all of Kampala or Nairobi or Kigali is a paradise of African wealth where the biggest problem is a warm beer. There is real, stark, damaging poverty here. But there is similar poverty in Clichy Sous Bois in Paris. There is similar poverty in Brooklyn. In Chicago. The outskirts of Amsterdam.
The idea that an African can’t have similar issues to those living in London is a mistake. It is a mistake rooted in the idea that Europe is somehow superior or has vast amounts of wealth. In reality, the East African GDP has been steadily on the rise for years, whereas the economic outlook in both North America and Europe have been steadily declining. Angola just gave a loan to their former colonialists, Portugal. Our cities now have thumping clubs, eclectic cuisine and most of these places are owned and invested in by locals.
Stop feeling bad for Africa. It doesn’t need your pity.
If you want to do something to help those who survive on very little, try investing in it. Instead of buying Tom’s shoes which give away free shoes (and therefore remove jobs from hardworking Africans making shoes) invest in Sole Rebels. A woman-owned Ethiopian based shoe company that pays their workers a livable wage.
Tonight I am going with Ugandan friends and some expats to watch the Poland vs. England match, live on DSTV at my local pub. I will eat grilled tilapia and drink some beer. This is not an extraordinary life here. This is the new Kampala average. This continent is far from perfect. Uganda is far from perfect. But it is getting there, and if you think for one minute Africans do not experience massages, cupcake shops, foam on our coffee, car trouble, banking woes and hangovers after too much fun, you are dead wrong.
It’s not all flies on babies. Welcome to the real Africa.
(via meggannn)
March 30, 2013
Because this always bears reblogging. Illustrates how cartography—specifically the ways in which cartographers shrink and expand land masses in order to depict a “flat” earth— distorts our perception of the world.
Whoa
africa’s huge…
(Source: visualamor, via tybaltcapulets)
January 4, 2013
THE FORGOTTEN - Example Of An African Middle-Class
Images from Africa in the Western media show mostly terrible misery, war, hunger and poverty. According to UN figures more than ninety percent of all Africans live neither in war nor crisis-areas and the economic growth of some African countries is among the largest in the world.
Kenya‘s economic growth is annually between five and six percent which is three times higher than the growth in Germany. This is above all to the credit of the middle class, which is probably the most crucial potential for the development of the country. Nevertheless you hardly notice anything about the lives of African middle class people. Hahn + Hartung traveled to the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi to meet and create a portray of people belonging to the middle class.
(via meggannn)
November 30, 2012
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Imagine if every single “black” African that came to Canada (or America) took photos of themselves sitting by homeless, emaciated and hungry individuals with the tag lines “my journey in North America” written beneath their newly updated facebook photos, how differently the world would regard North America.
Well North Americans would surely respond with the following:
“What a false presentation of North Americans! Not every single North American is homeless! And, stop calling us North Americans! We’re Canadians, not Americans…we have our own bloody identity!”
Of course they would be right. My lovely fellow students and activists and humanitarians, try to think of this when you travel to anywhere in Africa or Latin America again.
Not only do your images perpetuate stereotypes about these regions, but it also homogenizes the peoples experiences, stifles their voices, and inarguable propagates this Western Savior narrative. I understand that this is not your objective and your travels are undertaken for the purpose of your learning experiences and personal enlightenment, but when all the rest of the world perceives are hungry, naked children via the images you bring back, well…
"— My very smart friend, Ms. Ji-Ji Guerrera, on what the effects of telling a single story has on Africans (via lupinsavenger)
(Source: vaginashavefeelingstoo, via inautumn-inkashmir)
November 27, 2012
September 16, 2012
Muslims In Libya Condemn Violence, Apologize To Americans
#of course the news won’t show this #no they’ll just keep stating over and over that the US is sending two warships to the area #because that is more important than showing Americans that not all Muslims are evil like they already believe#because that would be asking too much of the media
(Source: eastlondoner, via myladymother)
September 12, 2012
An infographic depicting the percentage share of formal firms that are owned by women in Africa. Data from the World Bank.
(via itscandidlycara)
September 12, 2012
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. We can put a stop to this. Please reblog.
August 15, 2012
can we just take a moment and think about the time my dad accidentally made a fried egg that looked exactly like africa
gUYS SERIOUSLY
IT’S EGGFRICA
IT EVEN HAS MADAGASCAR
(Source: fathersollux, via moonbays-deactivated20121201)
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