According to  Wainana (2005) How to Write about Africa, the TEDTalks presented by Ngozi, and Bart-Williams – Change Your Channel, there are a lot of stereotypes and misinformation about African countries, written by Western writers and media. Africa is portrayed as a poor continent with lack of resources, uneducated people, and it is full of diseases.
In my own experience, it is expected that we should be multilingual, and in some cases that does not work. During orientation, I was part of the Lavaria koshuis and it was mostly white people, so some of them were Afrikaaners, the main issue at hand was English, my English was not as good as theirs, so when we had to introduce ourselves, we couldn't understand Afrikaans, and it was unfair because we were told to try our best when speaking English, and they made comments in Afrikaans saying that they will not translate in English. WE avoided making this a big issue by just speaking English and moving on with life.