RE: “YouthConnekt: Rebranding Africa” (The New Times, July 26). Excellent commentary. Don’t expect anything to change unless more and more Africans – especially young ones – stop acting as if they are mere bystanders and become fully engaged in changing the narrative from ‘Africa the Hopeless’ (endless iterations of The Dark Continent) to reflect something closer to reality.
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RE: "YouthConnekt: Rebranding Africa” (The New Times, July 26). Excellent commentary. Don’t expect anything to change unless more and more Africans – especially young ones – stop acting as if they are mere bystanders and become fully engaged in changing the narrative from ‘Africa the Hopeless’ (endless iterations of The Dark Continent) to reflect something closer to reality.
Of course, given the many brainwashed African évolués who have completely swallowed their colonisers’ view of Africa-the-Hopeless, I am not so confident that the mere involvement of more Africans in telling our continent’s story will be enough.
It has to be the right kind of Africans, not our colonisers’ local echo-chambers who pollute our media and academia and otherwise play the role of the local agents of influence of a Western world which they wrongly view as the desirable acme of human civilisation; the veritable Shining City on the Hill—Their Eldorado!
MK