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Africa: It's Time to Change the Africa Narrative
allAfrica, 21 January 2015
The western media has outdated and incorrect beliefs about Africa. This has to change. Read more »
Ashish Thakkar - a leading innovative entrepreneur and founder of the Mara Group and the Mara Foundation - calls on media to provide nuanced reporting on Africa - both 'positives and negatives' - and to avoid sensationalism. "In previous years, perhaps we had no choice but to accept a certain level of ignorance and misrepresented media coverage of Africa but, today, audiences on the continent and beyond demand more nuance, intelligence and balance."
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