Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

Welsh is an official language of Wales. This means, legally, it cannot be treated less favourably than English in any part of daily life. So we have bilingual signs and sometimes the translations are… well just awful.

This is a classic and made the news.

Welsh reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.

Welsh reads “Wines and ghosts”

Welsh reads “Warning workers are exploding”

In English these drinks are alcohol free in Welsh the drinks are free “Alcohol for nothing”.

Um- Welsh reads “Free erections” yes really!

This seems a tad harsh “Injure yourself now”

Wording is fine but the English and the Welsh disagree on right/left

The sign says “Parcio I Bobi Anabl” which is “Parking to bake the disabled” which I don’t think Tesco were going for.

omg

This has been in my queue for months.

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

the positive difference it would have made in my life for my parents to talk to me this way as a child puts me in my grave to even consider

We breaking generational curses

peter falk's columbo self-portraits

idk man, maybe it’s just the british/indian in me jumping out but I’ve always just blindly assumed this lady was holding a teacup, this is the first time I’ve actually looked at her hands and now I’m mad,

Did somebody edit this? It is usually a teacup, right?

ITS A FUCKING CUPCAKE???

WHAT????

Fuck's sake.

Make Britain Chips Again.

Loughborough Fair, November 2016.

Easier than submitting a bug report

wait the nike logo was put on non-nike shoes??? the shoes lil nas x is advertising?? and he’s just totally chill about nike suing? LMAO

UNAUTHORIZED SATAN SHOE I’M DYING

Full offense to anyone who finds this deeply offensive, i think it’s the funniest fucking thing on every level and i’m losing my shit about it

“Unauthorized Satan Shoe” is the funniest phrase I have ever fucking seen in my entire life

The “apology” he posted on his youtube channel just links to his song again

it’s the roaring 20s no kings no gods no masters just us, Dolly Parton, the Ever Given blocking 12% of global maritime trade, and Lil Nas X in Unauthorized Satan Shoes sliding down a stripper pole to hell

“Links to his song again” is a bit of an undersell, it has a clickbaity typical youtube apology thumbnail, the first few seconds are him being all serious and apologetic, and then out of nowhere it cuts to the clip of him giving Satan the lap dance. The pinned comment is something like “sorry about the joke, here’s the real apology video” and that also links to the music video.

Star Wars Role Reversal

What if Luke had been brought up on Alderaan as a prince and Leia was a farm girl from Tatooine

Deepfake technology will make this achievable somewhere in the future, and I'd pay to see it!

the vaccine thing in europe feels like its turning into some cheap spy thriller now. italian police raided some medical warehouse and found that there were literally THIRTY MILLION ASTRA ZENECA VACCINE DOSES there that the company had just not reported at all and when they were asked about it they were like “oh i dont know uh, i guess half of these are for europe yes, yes they were always meant for europe, and the other half is for covax countries. don’t ask why we were sitting on this secret stockpile and didn’t ship them at all, even though covax countries are exempt from export controls. we didnt mean to send these to the usa or britain when the export controls expired, that would simply be silly”

just as a reminder:

I don’t know how to casually play video games. It’s either I’m not interested or I play for 16 hrs straight and forget to eat.