How White Media Promotes A Racist Poverty Narrative About Africa

And how Netflix is showing us African millionaires instead

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Whenever I am asked where I’m from, I say with great pride that I’m from Sierra Leone in West Africa. Most often, I get a blank stare because few people actually know where that is. At other times, I get a bewildered look as if to say, “Why are you so proud? Your country is so poor; it’s a Third World country.”

Arg, that …