tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post5275925708870687602..comments2023-08-19T14:20:28.983+01:00Comments on SHONA VIXEN: L'Afrique c'est chicShonaVixenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745455482846320144noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-60427811651091831782010-04-07T13:29:42.226+01:002010-04-07T13:29:42.226+01:00Here bloody here! Africa is more than we have seen...Here bloody here! Africa is more than we have seen portrayed! We who have grown up (even briefly for salad children like me) OUR AFRICA has more talent, potential, passion and general beautiful complexity than this constant played out story of war, hunger, drought, poverty, corruption, AIDS and multiple wives. These issues are like the movie star who always gets the spotlight for playing the role of tragedy so well. Can the growth, the beauty, the varied positive stories of africa have a STARRING role for once? <br><br>This post if it was on facebook I would click on that like button faster than you know!kookiehttp://www.whostolethecookiesfromkookie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-54239526106673507722010-04-07T17:30:44.096+01:002010-04-07T17:30:44.096+01:00Worst is when fellow Africans support this bashing...Worst is when fellow Africans support this bashing of the continent. They never show us the good side of our continent. <br><br>Really Love this and love the Obama quote.Larahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15028561658576923679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-69310217574780025662010-04-07T19:14:29.846+01:002010-04-07T19:14:29.846+01:00I definitely concur. And Africans sometimes absorb...I definitely concur. And Africans sometimes absorb all these media representations about themselves and get to a place where they don't feel strong enough to portray themselves in a better light. This is even sadder...Jayceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06618639466963813761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-60301484638494402432010-04-07T23:06:17.909+01:002010-04-07T23:06:17.909+01:00your comment made a bit of sense until you quoted ...your comment made a bit of sense until you quoted obama. but why? just because his black?<br><br>I would like to ask an important question though, outside the purposely apt remark above. what if i see myself more as an individual rather than as an african? and then care very little or more on other individuals whether or not they are african.Super star!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17517523627619808433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-29534519222859304322010-04-08T17:02:42.541+01:002010-04-08T17:02:42.541+01:00I love the depth of this post. i was sad when Lond...I love the depth of this post. i was sad when London diva talked about an upcoming BBC program, Welcome to Lagos.<br>im tired of all these foreign stations depicting African as the devil's homeland and a place of suffering. enough is enough. There;s so much more to us. oh they never mention the great accomplishments and things that happen. all they talk about is the negatives. God help usFunms-the rebirthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521888528235024119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-43367840836344094062010-04-09T02:01:29.805+01:002010-04-09T02:01:29.805+01:00You know I just finished watching a show on BET wi...You know I just finished watching a show on BET with Kirk Franklin in Lagos for his Sunday Best auditions. And it was really good. No propaganda there, he was just catching his fun. It sounded and looked like Lagos was just another state in the US, auditions in Denver, Philadelphia, Lagos. That is the kind of shows we should support. All those supposed 'news' reports, SMH.Myne Whitmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595087387069634003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407895104586814122.post-85292850886900114932010-04-10T18:41:12.621+01:002010-04-10T18:41:12.621+01:00I love this post- I always complain, and yet latel...I love this post- I always complain, and yet lately I have stopped. Because I do nothing about it, so I kind of feel like I have no right. In my early years I wanted to do international development, till I realised that I am not rich enough to indulge in that career option, and my father could not understand why I would volunteer to go to any war zone to increase my prospects of a career in international development. I know that saying- become the change you want to see- but living up to it is another thing. I am here in London working for the machine and boosting this economy because I am not brave enough to go home and face the music.zimchichttp://zimchic.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com