An Introduction to Water and Food In Africa
Teenagers searching for clean water out of their village ( globalcitizen.org ) Before diving into the development actuality and water and food insecurities in Africa, I would like to start this first blog post with a reflection upon Binyavanga Wainaina’s article “How to write about Africa” ( Wainanina, 2019 ) . In Wainaina’s article, he has adopted a rather exaggerated and sarcastic tone to criticize the conceptualizations of Africa in social media and in Western colonial countries’ lenses. Although reading the article is amusing, I felt depressed and frustrated when having a second thought about it. It just makes me wonder, in what positions the West...