Stereotype- An often and untrue belief that many people have about all people

 ‘How to Write about Africa’. This piece exposes the Western narrative on the continent and it highlights the neo-colonial tendency to reinforce structural stereotypes and prejudices. Westerns view Africa as a country full of illiterate and that is full of danger, darkness, violence, poverty and hopelessness .

Many Westerners view Africa as primarily a jungle where the people speak unintelligible languages. pointless battles against each other. Nacirema is American but spelled backwards. Horace Miner wrote it to outline the criticism anthropologist had to hype up the perceived cultures. belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man’s only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual and ceremony. Every household has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. 

Adichie's single story is most destructive in creating a negative stereotype about a minority group, and how the danger of a single story by chimamanda says about how African people were robbed of their dignity. Bart-Williams "change your channel' sheds light on the wealth and potential of Africa and critics the prevailing a narrative as a needy continent.

After reading about "How to write about Africa" by Wanaina and "Body and Ritual among Nacirema" by Horace Miner and both TED talks videos by Chimamanda Ngozi and Bart-Williams it has come to my attention that western countries view African continent as a primitive society.