What are some of the main ideas and arguments that Nanjala discusses in her writing? by

2024-10-03 14:29:04 UTC

Taught to sit in the discomfort of racism:

having to navigate a world amongst people with a colonizer systemic mindset

cwhite29_19 — 2024-10-03 14:29:24 UTC

Overcoming preconception and dismantling damaging narratives about Africa and African people

Racism

2024-10-03 14:29:37 UTC

She discuss' s that racism is used by people who see people like her as characters part of their own world, not as people in which they feel justified in treating her like shes beneath them.

2024-10-03 14:29:58 UTC

Nobody looking past the Poverty issues in Africa

2024-10-03 14:31:19 UTC

Single story narrative because of the European idea/portrayal/bias. “The lenses that we use to process the information we read about a place are not neutral.” Africans need to study their own countries because otherwise euro views will be distort the truth

2024-10-03 14:33:19 UTC

We discussed how this article is challenging the one-sided narrative that is pushed by CNN of Kenayan’s being engaged in political violence as the “norm”, rather than being typical behaviour of Kenyans. Kenyans use social media, such as twitter, to directly challenge this narrative by allowing Kenyans to claim power and broadcast their ideas which are reflective of their values to the world - rather than through the view of the western eye

Avoiding a single story

2024-10-03 14:34:05 UTC

The use of social media to build counternarratives in order to dismantle sensationalized ideas and provide advanced perspectives.

The use of social media (twitter) to reclaim control over national narratives by forming networks of like-minded individuals, broadcasting ideas to large audiences without the use of traditional media (and its accompanying power dynamics).

2024-10-03 14:36:54 UTC

We’ve talked a lot about how we need to challenge our own ideas and views. This chapters is exactly about that and how even those within the country are having a warped view. Giving the voice and power back to those within is another point we’ve discussed in class and in this chapter.

2024-10-03 14:37:24 UTC

Underlying colonial impacts through the tourism and academics to fit the Europe narrative. ‘Africa for beginners’ portraying what tourists would want to see not the actual African culture. Also during the Nairobi conference where she was the only Kenyan speaker and after she said “much of the academic conceptions of the continent is nothing more then a projected image that Europeans have on themselves”.