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How to Write about Africa
Oxfarmmed
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By
Binyavanga Wainaina
Patrick Gathara
Daniel Muli

Always use the word ‘Africa or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black [...]

The media often treat Africa’s 53 countries as a vast, hopeless mass. That hurts, writes one of Kenya’s young literary stars, who has a deeply individual tale of his country’s stunning political change and the emergence of “the Equity Generation.”
Original Published in Vanity Fair July 2007. Click here to read the full article.