Native Africans are not helpless, unintelligent, and primitive nomads. They are an educated, spiritual, and diligent community that has a voice as valuable as every other person in this world, and their voice deserves to be heard. Achebe performed wonders when he wrote this literary breakthrough, and it’s so refreshing and illuminating to learn about a completely different way of life than any of us are used to. Randa Abdel-Fattah once said, “We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviors, beliefs, rituals.” We need to learn to give people of different cultures the greatest respect and support that they deserve. I hope that one day, our world can stand together as one peaceful community of people striving to better themselves and the world around them, rather than disrespecting and rejecting our
Native Africans are not helpless, unintelligent, and primitive nomads. They are an educated, spiritual, and diligent community that has a voice as valuable as every other person in this world, and their voice deserves to be heard. Achebe performed wonders when he wrote this literary breakthrough, and it’s so refreshing and illuminating to learn about a completely different way of life than any of us are used to. Randa Abdel-Fattah once said, “We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviors, beliefs, rituals.” We need to learn to give people of different cultures the greatest respect and support that they deserve. I hope that one day, our world can stand together as one peaceful community of people striving to better themselves and the world around them, rather than disrespecting and rejecting our