Lmao @ people who enforce the idea that the entirety of an absolutely humongous continent with many different countries and cultures and populations are basically Neanderthals. And I’m sure that this has nothing whatsoever to do with racism, Islamophobia, and the arrogant colonialist ideals that we can’t quite seem to shake.
Egypt is even planning to move their capital into a fancy new planned city because Cairo, which is one of the busiest and most congested cities in North Africa, is bursting at the seams.
People seem to think that it’s a wartorn wasteland because of the revolution and because it’s in the Middle East…but It’s a Beta + ranked global city, which is the same ranking as Prague, Ho Chi Minh City, Boston, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Athens, Munich, Atlanta, Bucharest, Helsinki, Budapest, Kiev, Hamburg, Bangalore, Rome, Oslo, Dallas, Houston, Lima, Lagos, Caracas, Auckland, and Cape Town.
Notice the amount of very modern cities on that list? Very economically prosperous cities in Europe and the US, which I note because it’s the standard that most will use for comparison?
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Africans don’t all live in corrugated plastic shacks held up by sticks and string with cardboard beds and drink contaminated water from a river downstream from a gold mine. They don’t all have fleets of malnourished HIV-positive fly-ridden children that for Just One $Dollar A Day you can save.
Not all of Africa is Advanced Poor™.
Not all of Africa is a chaotic mess full of rebel forces who will cut your breasts off.
You’re probably not going to be immediately bombed, kidnapped, sexually violated, and killed the instant you set foot on the continent.
Actual human people with cars and phones and classes to go to and things to sell and shit to do live there. They’re not NPCs for the white folk who visit.
Does this (tw: poverty, racism, violence, including sexual.) mean that Africa doesn’t have its problems? No. But let’s be real here. North America is just as bad in a lot of ways.
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