Africa: Ordinary People's Stories Can Change the World's Views About Africa

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We cannot see salary data in the faces of others, but most of us have similar mental images that structure how we think about poverty in Africa.

Search Google Images for 'African poverty' to see how yours match up. Dilapidated housing. Tattered shirts. Blank stares. Bellies protruding from parasitic infections. Skin clinging to bones from starvation. Tears.

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