“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” (Achebe:1958) First of all I believe that this saying describes the condition of African countries. Secondly, The Europeans has managed to identify us as primitive and themselves as better and civilized. Now even when some kind of civilization has been reached, we still experience some kind of exoticization. When will the perception change?

“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” It is always the loudest voices that get trusted for their information source. African countries are represented in one way by Europeans to make them inferior to them. The rest of the world knows Africa according to the Europeans perception.

Europeans have managed to identify us as primitive and themselves as civilized Just because something is foreign to you it does not mean it is not right. Furthermore, there are many ways they could have introduced civilization other than colonization. We are being exorcised because we are different.

Now even when some kind of civilization has been reached there is othering and exoticization from Western countries, according to Ngozi on the TED talk we are represented as one thing over and over again and that is what we become. She continues to call it a single story. No matter how we advance we will always be inferior to them and to them, we can never do anything. Most of the people in the Western counties today can’t even list 3 African countries because to them we are one thing.

I came to the conclusion that it is very important to be open minded about the world around us, we are different and should embrace it to maintain fairness and unity.