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Toyin Falola

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Jan 9, 2021, 9:38:28 PM1/9/21

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https://africanarguments.org/2021/01/africans-dont-just-live-to-die-a-response-to-the-new-york-times/

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Dr BioDun J Ogundayo

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Jan 10, 2021, 5:41:06 AM1/10/21

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Chief Falola:

Great read.

The last paragraph, reprised below, does an excellent job of reminding western journalists of their lazy intellectual attitudes regarding African narratives. It’s a disgrace! Some of these reporters hide behind the “prestige” of their news outlets to indulge in shameful and bigoted wish fulfilment

about Africa and Africans.

“As long as reporting of Africa and other parts of the Global South continues to be addressed to an audience craving a glimpse into the strangeness of how the other half lives (or dies), such articles will continue to be churned out. What is lost with this imperialist view is incalculable. The dignity of the people of an entire continent. Serious analysis and comparison of approaches to solving global problems. The ability to learn from one another. The chance to see ourselves as part of a whole, more similar in our humanity than different. And the opportunity for true internationalism.”

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 21:38 Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://africanarguments.org/2021/01/africans-dont-just-live-to-die-a-response-to-the-new-york-times/

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