False portrayals of Africa not limited to western media

Editor, Refer to the letter, “Why we must expose the self-appointed Africa expert” (The New Times, June 6). Why would those who think that Africa is a country care how genuine the expertise of their “analyst” is? Most western audiences and readers have been fed with one-dimensional cartoonish views of Africa by their pseudo experts for so long that we shouldn’t be surprised if the average Westerner believes most Africans live in trees.