Its been a long time since i wrote anything on this blog , oh, it was a week back. Alright, alright, bad joke but today I'm writing about my most meaningful takeaway from the most productive discussion we had ever had in class on "An African Voice" an interview done with Chinua Achebe, the world famous author of Things fall Apart, which depicts the disruption that europeans, especially the british, as usual brought about to the culture and the lifestyle of the people living in Umuofia, present day, western Nigeria.
So talking about the takeaway, i think about Texas Chicken, but i also think about the time we discussed about what Chinua Achebe said about how the media represents a certain country in a certain way to the extent that when people talk about, in his case, Africa, an image of a "luxurious house in Lagos" doesn't come to mind but rather images of poverty, plague and famine come to mind.
It made me think about India and how it was portrayed as a very poor place in the 1990's by BBC. I would watch it when i was young, and i would question it while using some swear words to why India was represented in such a derogatory way. So i know its not really a takeaway buit it is something that i could reflect on. So yeah....
PEACE
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