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Home » Fashion » Young Africans are posting images of their lives to show what the media won’t.

Young Africans are posting images of their lives to show what the media won’t.

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Africans put up with a lot of crap.

Seriously. It’s embarrassing.

A simple search I did this morning. People are confused.

No, Africa is not a country (it’s a continent with approximately
54 countries!), but we once had a presidential candidate who apparently didn’t realize that. We’ve had an airline who assumed giraffes roam around everywhere. And we have this never-ending idea that Africa needs to be saved.

The myths are aplenty.

Collectively, the rest of the world has been getting Africa wrong for so long.

It’s time to make it right.

Young Africans are posting on social media to show what their real lives look like.

Under the hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou, young people are helping to debunk the ridiculous stereotypes we’ve been fed about Africa to show the place they call home for what it truly is.

It truly is awesome. There’s art, education, home life, cool landscapes, fashion, cities, and more.

african street style #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/UlfRkFdkCh blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 24, 2015

Welcome to Ghana. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/vVgYSYwhxK Simeon (@SimeonLFC) June 24, 2015

4 exceptionally clever Nigerian women win 2015 Global Technovation Challenge. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/FkdCvtqtcp Nad!a A. (@Nadiaalie) July 10, 2015

Africa has 3 female heads of state.
#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/oH4AYRRV3w Nad!a A. (@Nadiaalie) June 24, 2015

#theafricathemedianevershowsyou Skateboarding in Ethiopia… pic.twitter.com/oJcEe6AGiw ThatEthioBoy (@ThatEthioBoy) July 1, 2015

Johannesburg street fashion #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/N7OrgdivJz mango (@lunarnomad) June 23, 2015

#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou Ghana, Somalia, Egyptian, Rwanda WEDDINGS. pic.twitter.com/6AzkmXB8vi Venus (@MacheteVenus) June 24, 2015

Africa

Yea we Live in “HUTS” #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/3ZhrmRc4bT Princess Lexi (@basicalexiaa) June 24, 2015

Diversity for days, weeks, decades, centuries, millenniums. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/ttGhpvrx23 Captain Africa (@See_Say_92) June 23, 2015

african architecture #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/wRrGf0Cskj blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 25, 2015

Rwanda has the highest percentage of female lawmakers in the entire world
#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/J8EBfUrOPR Nigiste Negest (@phosa__m) June 24, 2015

By 2050, it’s estimated that Africa will be home to every 2 out of 5 children in the world.

That is A LOT OF KIDS. From
UNICEF:

“According to the
Generation 2030/Africa Report, high fertility rates and rising numbers of women of reproductive age mean that over the next 35 years, almost two billion babies will be born in Africa; the continent’s population will double in size; and its under-18 population will increase by two-thirds to reach almost a billion children.”

Africa is booming with potential, and it’s time we stop lumping more than 1 billion people from 50+ countries into one mental picture. It’s just not true.

Young people + new ways of thinking + technology = watch out, world.

It’s already starting. Don’t blink.

That’s better.

Read more: http://www.upworthy.com/young-africans-are-posting-images-of-their-lives-to-show-what-the-media-wont?c=tpstream

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