Organizing for Africa
Email: theblogaboutafrica@gmail.com
The main motivation for writing this blog is to highlight African issues from a perspective which, if considered, can portray Africa differently.
Since immemorial times, the continent is seen through Western media lenses, as a wild and dark fairytale place but at the same time exotic, from where nothing good can come.
Such portrayal of Africa has subconsciously been espoused even by most Africans, so intensely that they don’t do much, if they ever, to change the perception the world has of them, thanks to their image-creator: the international media.
What has been happening to Africans has been similar to what happens to a child who is continuously told that he is not good at anything, and won’t get nowhere in life. Effectively he ends up becoming nobody.
This blog aims at pointing at those aspects of African experiences which contribute at self-devaluation of Africans, and suggesting solutions to identified problems.
Just discovered your blog, keep it up with the ideas and articles ! injustice need to be condemned anyway and anyhow!
This is laughable – where is “the rising continent” on this blog that is a front for genocide ideology – the very kind of thinking that will SINK the continent. How do you raise the continent by throwing dirt at Rwanda – a country that is performing better than most. in Africa? Who do you think you are kidding? There are no lions on the move in these writings – just hateful dirty hyenas. Good luck on you despicable destructive mission.
Wether laughing or not, it is everybody’s right. You are asking where is ‘the rising continent’ on this blog? I would return you the question, where is lyavule (if this is your name) in your comment? The rising continent is characterised by many aspects. By not highlighting those that the blog has so far covered I don’t think anyone would be doing any good to the continent. Because they are the ones which don’t allow it to get off the horizons effectively. As for the blog being a front for genocide ideology, if calling for an end to impunity of criminals whoever they could be is not right, then there is no shame in any characterisation of the blog. Like it or not, lions are on the move. But you noticed well they are not moving as they would’ve liked. They are momentarily preoccupied by dirt in their way that they need to clear first.
Thanks for your blog as it indeed means a lot for those who will have time to read it! You need to write more as you fully understand the key question in that region! Komerezaho!