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This 6 page paper discusses the misrepresentation by Western Media of the situations facing Africa. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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century"(Orina 2003). Such headlines as the one above seem to dominate the Western press whenever Africa is mentioned. The terms, disease,
hunger, and poverty seem to paint a very bleak picture for those take in the media reports by Western journalists. Surely, the Western media are portraying the situation in Africa
as it truly is. Surely, Africa is suffering like it never has before. Surely, not, say the African ambassadors and representatives. In
fact, The New African Magazine stated that these doom and gloom reports are misleading to say the least. They offered as a counter to these dire reports the fact that
in only eight of the fifty African states were there any true crises as the Western reporters stated. Given this then, New African Magazine wondered, could the rest of the
African nations be considered in dire straits because a low percentage of the countries in Africa were suffering? Perhaps a good deal
of the rhetoric and perspective toward Africa is deeply rooted in the image that remains of Africa in the past. In the early part of the 1900s Kwame Nkrumah was
elected to Prime Minister of Ghana. At the onset he was very popular and effective in getting his programs supported by parliament. Since he was a very outspoken opponent to
British rule and had been instrumental in the independent movement, the people were willing to look past the fact that Nkrumah was a communist and that his Marxist belief systems
would eventually place a stranglehold on their economy. Pointing to the dire consequences which ended Nkrumahs leadership, the Western media seems to
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