Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

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I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

Yo, don’t forget Salem, Oregon. If you go to downtown Salem, there’s a lot of homeless camps over there.

Salem, Oregon, near the river downtown.

The U.S. is just a third world country trying to cosplay a first world country.

Honestly there are many homeless people and sceneries like these all over europe as well… first world country and third world country look more and more to be words that have too many flaws and that are too ideological to be efficiently used

Hans Gosling’s “factfuless” is a good book on the subject; Essentially most ppl tend to think the world still looks like the 1950s. 

Even world leaders, charity workers and CEOs do. 

There are richer & poorer countries but there is no longer a big definitive gap, and no matter where you live your circumstances are more down to your income than “culture” or whatever

These days only 10% of the world live in extreme poverty (some of that in reservations & crappy minority neighborhoods in the USA, or, here in Europe, illegally underpaid bulgarian immigrants, most is in active warzones; Any amount of it is still too much of course) - there are also the only areas where ppl have crazy amounts of kids anymore, the average earth citizen has 2. The population is only increasing cause the extra kids from the world’s poorer days are growing older.  The number of small children is no longer increasing at all. 

So stop being paranoid about foreigners

I’m sad no one added Cidade da Praia from Cabo Verde in here, so here ya go