Several centuries later, the works of Homer, in particular The Iliad and The Odyssey, provide a glimpse of how the ancient Greeks perceived Africa. In these works, there are references to Ethiopians as liv
The Greeks mostly saw Africa as opposites to them, they saw the climate was vastly differant, they saw that the social constructs were different and also viewed them as barbaric.
However, many criticisms have been leveled against social media. For example, there is often no way to fact-check whether someone’s blog or microblog is true, partially true, or harmfully false, particularly when the events take place in remote locations in Africa.
I agree with this because there is many tourists blogging about Africa when they don't know anything about their culture and are simply sharing their biased point of view.
Africa is just one large country. Africa is poor and disease ridden. Africa is technologically backward. Africans all live in huts. Africa needs aid to help it “develop.” Africans all speak “African” and share the same culture. Africa is filled with dangerous animals. Africa is dangerous and violent. Africa is mostly jungle. Egypt is not truly African. Africa has no history. African women are all oppressed.4
These stay consistent with videos I see online that are people asking for help and tourists going around filming people not translating their culture.
famine
Americans relates Africa to famine because we see various people reaching out asking for donations to help these people who are actually experiencing famine and not the rest of Africa as well
We know, for example, that Africans belong to tribes. And we know that Africa is a place of famine, disease, poverty, coups, and large wild animals. General images are useful and perhaps necessary for our collective consciousness.
The reason that those are the words Americans relate to Africa is because we see many images on TikTok or instagram that only show famine, disease, poverty and large wild animals.
Today’s nature shows still tend to portray Africa as a place filled with wild animals, park rangers, and naturalists who battle against poachers and encroaching agriculture.
Ive seen a lot of these on YouTube, I like to watch a lot of different nature documentaries when I fall asleep and sometime one in a different language is easier to sleep to.
ch-niques became possible. Population growth, which accompanied the slow shift to agriculture, and later the use of iron, set in motion another important process in African history.
They had independent developments of techniques and farming way before European colonization and later people were enslaved for their capability to consistantly do that.
Their history consisted of the gradual refinement of gathering and hunting techniques, a slow spread of new inventions from one group to another, and the very slow growth of population.
They had growing aspects of many resources and techniques that was later taken advantage of and changed Africa and still has effects to this day
Clearly, while Africans created and continue to create their own history, they did and still do under conditions that, in many cases, they do not control.
The effect that trade had when it drastically spread thoughout and from the europeans taking over Africa hurt it in many ways, while some areas gained another side was facing strong effects of this.
Nature wields a much heavier hand in Africa than in the industrialized world in directly influencing the welfare of hundreds of millions of people.
The content is so large it has very dry places which effects the people who live there which is heavily highlighted by social media. Along with green and wet areas along the north and south away from the equator creating moist places aswell. Which is another way there is so much diversity in the plants and wildlife.
South Africa emerges as an economic powerhouse with over $29 billion in imports/exports
I think this is why South Africa has a strong advancement in the medical field compared to the rest of Africa.
eido-scope of diversity.
I think this is because it's one of the largest connected ares in the world, creating diversity in every way with the plants, animals and even people.
Although it is often the case that such comments are made unintentionally, they do reinforce negative ideas and stereotypes about Africa.
This is a large downside to seeing and getting knowledge from the internet, because it's so easy to see a biased perspective when its the only one you've seen.
We can even access Africans who blog about Africa.
Influencers on Tik Tok showing days in the life videos in different parts of the country.
The Internet
I chose this title because I have learned most of my knoledge about Africa from the internet and promotion videos.
General images are useful and perhaps necessary for our collective consciousness.
Have a picture of something makes it easier to understand and remember.