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Stereotyping Africa. : Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions.
Title:
Stereotyping Africa. : Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions.
Author:
Doh, Fru.
ISBN:
9789956579020
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Part One. The Introduction: On Painting a Portrait -- Part Two. Questions and Answers -- Attitude -- Age -- Children -- Colonialism -- Communication -- Crime -- Death -- The Diaspora -- Economy -- Education -- Family -- Fashion -- Geography -- Habits/Cultural Practices -- Health -- Housing -- Judiciary -- Landscape -- Languages -- Nutrition/Eating Habits -- Occupation -- Politics/Government -- Religion -- Sexuality -- Sports -- Music -- Technology -- Transportation -- Utilities -- Men and Women -- Part Three. The Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about "Africa," as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state. So one begins wondering why it is that Africans, on the other hand, do not refer to individual European countries as "Europe" simply, then the trends and consequences of stereotyping begin setting in just as one is getting used to being asked if Africa has a president, or if one can say something in African. It is some of these questions that Emmanuel Fru Doh has collected over the years and has attempted answering them in an effort to shed some light on a continent that is in many ways like the rest of the world, when not better, but which so many love to paint as dark, backward, chaotic, and pathetic.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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