African Stereotypes In The Media

African representations in the media is negative as african are depicted as living in poverty,with wild animals, in huts, uneducated and fighting war. Many Americans during their lifetime would never travel to africa to see for themselves that what the media is portraying is totally one sided.

In the media today, we see African commercials where you can save a dying child for less than a dollar per day. The producer of these commercial normally go to a particular Eastern part of Africa that’s remote and barely associated with the modern world, then shoot their video. Making the continent of Africa appear to be all starving and on the verge of being off the planet, using slogans like “A child dies of hunger every six seconds”. That slogan doesn’t only diminish other people from seeing. Africa as a wasteland where children are giving birth to just to later die and other part of the world has to come to their rescue. I’m from africa (Nigeria) and the majority of the people in Nigeria and most of the West African countries are middle class and they work hard to get their families …show more content…
I have never seen a hut or how one looks like in person except for the one shown on the media by different agencies describing Africa and asking for financial assistance/ I do believe there are some parts of Africa where people live in huts; I wouldn’t say that’s untrue but the majority of people live in a regular house,, just as people in American. There’s a saying if you show people an image enough, whether it’s true or not, they start believing it. The first image you see when you Google Houses in Africa are hut like structure, but when you make specific search like the houses in Nigeria we see a major difference. Here is an