My understanding of Wainaina's essay is that it is Satire using humor and irony to expose stereotypes used by the western writers who purposely gave out deceiving information about africa.

Reading this essay makes me realize how basic it is for others to describe africa in a negative way However I feel like this should leave Africans feeling empowered so that they can take control of the narrative to make the "African"version of africa be known rather than leaving others with the misinformation narrated by the Western societies.

One of the most popular myth given out by the Europeans is that the AFRICANS were pagans before Christianity was brought to africa which is not true because I fail to understand how African s were said to understand were said to have been worshipping demons and witchcraft.or is it because Africans traditional religions are all monotheistic and Africans plead to their ancestors as a belief  that their prayers would be passed forward to God . Because I happen to believe that ancestors are a historical connecting cable to the creation that happened even before humans/Africans came to earth of even africa as a continent that's why It would be  so hard to believe that Africans would not have any other ways of showing their beliefs like the western societies protray African to others who lack proper information about africa.all the myths that have been said by these outsiders is for them to harm African because the wanted ownership of some of the things in africa but in reality people just have to understand that all our relations of African genealogy is not worshipping ancestors as such but recognizing those who were here before us so that we can connect to the one who made us before we became.

I choose to think that the Europeans tend to be in that way because even the construct of their their text itself challenges their own culture which I think the lack or don't have at all because most the knowledge they have was extracted from African and presented to others as their as if  they  own it leaving africa in a tarnished space which I think is way too exocticand unfair to Africans.