It has always bothered this writer that when the world talks about poverty, Africa is always highlighted. What is of concern though, is how this issue is portrayed and by who. It seems like there is a calculated move to ensure that the image of a begging and impoverished Africa is perpetuated.
There are many causes started in the western world on the basis of raising money for helping some miserable souls in Africa. This causes are always supported with pictures of dehumanized African children with flies circling around them. The images are aimed at making the person seeing them feel disgusted as well as favored and special compared to that poor African.
If indeed this money collected is aimed at Africa and gets to Africa, surely by now we would no longer have any poverty in Africa. The fact of the matter is that some of these pictures are fake and do not have any bearing to the truth or are half truths.
A young man from Uganda was shocked to see a so called non profit organization in Britain, raising money to help poor African children, using his picture. This man was a grown man and independently living in England. The photo must have been taken by some sneaky person when he was a child and without his permission.
A young man from Uganda was shocked to see a so called non profit organization in Britain, raising money to help poor African children, using his picture. This man was a grown man and independently living in England. The photo must have been taken by some sneaky person when he was a child and without his permission.
This raises another question that is very disturbing. Most of these dehumanizing pictures are taken without the consent of the people or without explaining the reason for the pictures. This is a violation of these people’s right of privacy and would never be allowed in the Western world.
This continuous negative portrayal of Africans has made the person in the Western world view the African with disdain. Recently the British started a program where their rich celebrities were taken to one of Kenya’s slums by the name of Kibera. Kibera has become a cash cow for many non profit organizations because of how it is portrayed.
The numbers of people living in the slums were inflated to the effect that Kibera was considered the largest slum in the world. The recent Kenyan census results, however showed a very different picture. It is shameful to imagine the British on the guise of exposing celebrities to poverty are actually entertaining themselves at the expanse of the wretched of the earth
Read more: http://socyberty.com/society/how-the-western-world-is-entertained-with-the-poor-of-africa/#ixzz1JNYqqbgB
This continuous negative portrayal of Africans has made the person in the Western world view the African with disdain. Recently the British started a program where their rich celebrities were taken to one of Kenya’s slums by the name of Kibera. Kibera has become a cash cow for many non profit organizations because of how it is portrayed.
The numbers of people living in the slums were inflated to the effect that Kibera was considered the largest slum in the world. The recent Kenyan census results, however showed a very different picture. It is shameful to imagine the British on the guise of exposing celebrities to poverty are actually entertaining themselves at the expanse of the wretched of the earth
Read more: http://socyberty.com/society/how-the-western-world-is-entertained-with-the-poor-of-africa/#ixzz1JNYqqbgB
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