The Poverty Narrative of Africa

These are two links about the poverty narrative in Africa.  One is a TED talk by Chimamanda Adichie about the dangers of the "single story," and the other is a photo project called "Perspectives on Poverty" about the media images we see about Africa. It's always good to be reminded that a bigger pictures always exists out there.  An Africa exists beyond those commercials of starving African kids, those stories of genocide and disease and death and suffering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

http://waterwellness.ca/2010/04/28/perspectives-of-poverty/