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Africa, a new hashtag reveals the continent that doesn’t make the headlines
We’re used to seeing Africa portrayed in the news as a hotbed of conflict, disease and poverty. Africans are rebelling against the image of the troubled continent through #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. Under this hashtag you can find over 42,000 tweets and retweets covering topics ranging from architecture to fashion, landscapes to social initiatives, history to modern innovations.
We’re used to seeing Africa portrayed in the news as a hotbed of conflict, disease and poverty. Africans are rebelling against the image of the troubled continent through #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. Under this hashtag you can find over 42,000 tweets and retweets covering topics ranging from architecture to fashion, landscapes to social initiatives, history to modern innovations. All proving that Africa is a hotbed of creativity, resourcefulness and beauty instead.
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Snow at the equator on top of Mt. Kenya. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/qbEQlPyGQ8 via @KENYAPICS #travelpics
— Green Adventures (@GreenTravelMag) July 16, 2015
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The campaign to fight media stereotypes of Africa was started by Twitter user @WestAfricanne on the 26th of June 2015, with the following tweet:
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#UnseenAfrica #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou please use these HT’s so we can show the world what the media won’t. pic.twitter.com/xszQBth8Pe
— Ray (@WestAfricanne) June 26, 2015
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@WestAfricanne, identified as a 17 year-old from Ghana, told Mashable in an interview:
“I started this Campaign because I felt that it’s time the world knew the truth about Africans, to hear our stories and to see the Africa we know and see rather than what some/most media outlets show to them. Being in Ghana, and being an African as well, I know there is so much more than the poverty, ethnic wars, and the disease. The world deserves to know there is something behind that.”
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The Pearl Of Africa, UGANDA. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/zp9UBGm1Wf
— This Is Uganda (@ThisIsUganda_) June 24, 2015
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