Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said that many people, who live outside the African space have seen and they still regard Africa in the same way as her roommate saw it: a lush world, strange and almost “unearthly”. Although I’m a history lover, I confess that I have seen Africa from the same perspective. I told the children about the voyages of discovery, about Bartolomeo Diaz and Vasco da Gama, about European colonialism in Africa, about decolonization of the twentieth century. The image that I have outlined so far has been one of an African continent similar to the one described by Jules Verne in Southern Star! The moment I began to question the issue myself was when I read Chinua Achebe's book, Things Fall Apart. The book is a lush novel but one that has  nothing to do with  the exotic things related to Africa which have been describe to life in European literature. Centered on the life story of Okonkwo, one of the most powerful heads of the clan Igbo, the novel presents the conflicts between old beliefs and new laws imposed by the white settlers in the late nineteenth century.

So I found another story about Africa!