How Africa
To many Westerners, especially Americans, Africa is a country and it is faced with many problems.
Africans tweet bomb a U.S journalist for calling ‘Africa a starving country ‘ (Africannews)
Africans on Twitter have unleashed weapons in the form of words on a United States (U.S) journalist for calling Africa ‘a country that is facing a starvation problem’.
The journalist, identified as Kelly Cohen, shared a student’s homework on his Twitter handle – @politiCOHEN_. And this piece recommends starvation in Africa as a solution to a problem called ‘Donald Trump’.
This made Africans on the social media platform to call out education system of U.S for spreading ignorance and misrepresentation of the region.
my friend’s friend is a 3rd grade teacher, and just texted me this student’s homework she had hanging in her apartment 😭😂😩 pic.twitter.com/8PBgJsq5Jx
— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) December 31, 2017
But Africa literally feeds the world with its resources. Africa could survive without interference from other countries.
Other countries could NOT survive without Africa.
Teacher ignorance on display early in 2018
— Darren Williams (@Dwill_P4F) January 2, 2018
I might starve….someone is failing at the education part 🤔💯
— King Tide 🌊🔱 (@reekrillz20) January 1, 2018
Kids think of huts when it comes to Africa, because, sadly, they’ve never been taught about Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Windhoek, Lagos, Nairobi…surely says something about this country’s educational system.
— Carlos Braga F.C. 🇧🇷🇧🇷 (@carbra2903) January 1, 2018
So who taught him that Africa is a starving nation. And why don't you see this as an insult to the people of Africa. Since you posted it and all?????
— Ms. Neva Sleep (@truff0123) January 1, 2018
No one is mad at the kid though?? It’s the education system that is to blame, and America in general. That’s what people are upset about, and Africans have a reason to be mad abt how this country portrays their continent and what they’re teaching kids to believe.
— 🍒 (@temporalpearl) January 2, 2018
This is a usual practice of Western media houses
It is not the first time western-based media outfits would be called out for misrepresentation and bad reportage about Africa. In 2017, many twitter campaigns were launched to address false stories and inaccurate reportage about the region.
My Ghana people. Shall we do something let @CNN know we are tired of their lazy reportage of our election? Tweet them with #CNNGetItRight pic.twitter.com/A4E7GY0fp3
— Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) December 11, 2016
These inaccurate reportages by the foreign media in 2017 didn’t exclude Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. An image of his return from medical leave in the United Kingdom was used to describe a Ghanaian arrested for visa fraud case by the New York Times.
"While Nigerian & Ghanaian Jollof are often mistaken for each other, the two countries are actually different." #ApologizeLikeNYT pic.twitter.com/FwsCTIqcEL
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) April 28, 2017
Just landed in GH. Looks like @CNN changed the erroneous facts on the story after the #CNNGetItRight deluge. Q: WTF were there thinking?! pic.twitter.com/TH1k9POidw
— Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) December 11, 2016
.@nytimes Photo Desk: We can't find any Ghana photos
.@nytimes Photo Editor: *Googles*. Use this one. It's the only African thing we have. https://t.co/LDqbQSw7Ky
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) April 27, 2017
