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Learning About Africa: For Those Who Want to Know More After Seeing Black Panther
I was delighted with Black Panther for so many of the reasons articulated elsewhere. The one I want to highlight is the thoughtful representation of African culture. I admit I had been a bit wary about this going into the … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: Sierra Leone, Mudslides, and Absent Media
It is the rainy season in Sierra Leone. The country being close to the equator, these rains are intense and this year it has been worse than usual. Early on the morning of August 14th especially heavy rains caused dense … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: How Does The US Media Represent Africa?
Taken together, this anachronistic style of coverage reproduces, in condensed form, many of the worst habits of modern American journalism on the subject of Africa. To be clear, this means that Africa only warrants the public’s attention when there is … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: Ebola and Everyone
I want to live in a country that understands Ebola. I want to live in a world that cares about those dying from this terrible disease in West Africa. Nobody should’ve had to watch me ride my bicycle out in … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: Best Source for Ebola Info? Not What You May Think
I have never agreed with the dismissal of Wikipedia as a source of information, even for students. This is because that while, yes, there are pages that are full of misinformation, others are excellent. The latter are carefully maintained by experts … Continue reading
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Learning about Africa: Time lapse: Driving through Freetown’s Ebola Lockdown
As heart-wrenching as it is for me, I have been watching this obsessively as the places are so familiar to me. Just imagine your city or town so deserted for such a reason.
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Learning About Africa: Ishmael Beal Tells it True “Still, the ways in which Africans are portrayed as less human have not lost the power to shock. “
Ishmael Beah, in “The West ignores the stories of Africans in the middle of the Ebola outbreak” writes bluntly about much I’ve been thinking, but afraid to say. He begins: It wasn’t surprising that Western journalists would react with doom-and-gloom when … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: Coping with Ebola in Kenema
While Ebola seems to be off the New York Times front page, the articles are still there. “If They Survive in the Ebola Ward, They Work On” features some heroic people in and around Kenema, an area I knew when I … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: The Realness of Ebola in Sierra Leone
This blog is a platform I normally reserve for the important issue of fashion in Sierra Leone, but this week, I’m struggling to find a fashion angle. Unless you’ve been living on mars, you will know that West Africa is … Continue reading
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Learning About Africa: Ebola
Yet again Africa is in the news as the other, as a place of horror and misery. So just a few reminders: Ebola is not throughout Africa. You don’t need to worry when coming into contact with someone from the continent … Continue reading
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