{"id":5673,"date":"2018-01-02T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2018-01-05T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T05:16:42","slug":"africans-to-u-s-journalist-on-twitter-africa-is-not-a-country-we-aint-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/africans-to-u-s-journalist-on-twitter-africa-is-not-a-country-we-aint-starving\/","title":{"rendered":"Africans to U.S. journalist on Twitter: “Africa is not a country, we ain’t starving”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Jan 2, 2017: Africans are calling out the education system and attitudes of people in the United States who continue to perceive the entire African continent as a country, and one that is starving for that matter.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The latest backlash against this ignorance and stereotype was unleashed on Twitter after a journalist in the United States shared a \u2018student\u2019s homework\u2019 that recommended starvation in Africa as a solution to a problem called \u2018Donald Trump\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>kelly cohen<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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my friend\u2019s friend is a 3rd grade teacher, and just texted me this student\u2019s homework she had hanging in her apartment \"\ud83d\ude2d\"\"\ud83d\ude02\"\"\ud83d\ude29\"<\/p>\n

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The post quickly went viral, with many people expressing shock that a journalist found the child\u2019s solutions funny despite the gross misrepresentation of the conditions in Africa.<\/p>\n

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Replying to @politiCOHEN_ @_JakeRussell<\/a><\/div>\n
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I might starve….someone is failing at the education part \"\ud83e\udd14\"\"\ud83d\udcaf\"<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>The Anomaly\"\ud83c\udf3c\"<\/span><\/span>@ndapewoshali_a<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Replying to @reekrillz20 and 2 others<\/a><\/div>\n
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The fact that you think this is funny and can’t see the incredibly insulting failure in this child’s education is shocking. Or perhaps you also think we’re over here starving in our huts with our pet lions which is even more scary.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>citation needed<\/span><\/span>@itsyogirlsagal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Going viral for all the wrong reason. \u201cI might starve\u201d pic.twitter.com\/i8v45oicZa<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>John Rocket<\/span><\/span>@SeizeTheDay80<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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tell ya friend to tell her friend to get her kid some positive images of Africa……<\/p>\n