África sigue siendo para muchos un continente desconocido, lleno de estereotipos, y lo que es peor, al que se mira con paternalismo. Los indicadores económicos están ahí, pero no deja de ser un enorme continente lleno de diversidad, matices y complejidad. Y no todo es miseria y nulo desarrollo. Para enseñar la cara de África que los medios no suelen mostrar, un grupo de jóvenes comenzó a difundir fotografías, gráficos o cualquier tipo de información que revelen esa "cara B" del continente, a través del hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou.
En los últimos días este hashtag se ha hecho cada vez más popular, tanto que quizás haya ayudado a que la imagen de África en países "desarrollados" pase de ser esta...
...a esta otra. Arte, cultura, tradición, arquitectura, igualdad de género, educación, naturaleza...
african architecture #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/wRrGf0Cskj
— blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 25, 2015Welcome to Ghana. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/vVgYSYwhxK
— @sxmeon new account (@SimeonLFC) June 24, 2015african street style #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/UlfRkFdkCh
— blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 24, 2015Africa has 3 female heads of state.
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— Nad!a A. (@Nadiaalie) June 24, 2015#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou Ghana, Somalia, Egyptian, Rwanda WEDDINGS. pic.twitter.com/6AzkmXB8vi
— Venus (@MacheteVenus) June 24, 2015Diversity for days, weeks, decades, centuries, millenniums. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/ttGhpvrx23
— Captain Africa (@See_Say_92) June 23, 2015Rwanda has the highest percentage of female lawmakers in the entire world 😊
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— G.O.M.D (@phosa__m) June 24, 2015In Tanzania, moms and babies are getting a healthy start with @Compassion. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/9HJWK95hzm
— Compassion Intl (@compassion) July 8, 201554 countries
1500 - 2000 spoken languages
3000+ ethnic groups
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— ForgottenBeauty (@forgottenFINES) July 5, 2015My beautiful🌅 #senegal. Beauty is in the eyes of the viewer. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. http://t.co/176FOVwiBk pic.twitter.com/M4LWOhVdhL
— Layepro (@layepro) July 3, 2015Children of Mauritania 🇲🇷
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— ForgottenBeauty (@forgottenFINES) July 5, 2015Moroccan Architecture 🇲🇦
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— ForgottenBeauty (@forgottenFINES) July 3, 2015#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou Our little ones are happy & not always bony starved kids with flies on their faces! pic.twitter.com/4vl8r7aHIi
— Martha Rose ♥♥♥ (@DatAfricanGirl) July 3, 2015Such a great hashtag: #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou
Photo ht @SiphileHlwatika Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa pic.twitter.com/KBGUQze3LM
— Femi Oke (@FemiOke) July 6, 2015#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou taught you some lessons http://t.co/GlEuPwJqED pic.twitter.com/2yRWSV5iux
— BET (@BET) July 6, 201550,000 images that will change how you see Africa! http://t.co/yK9F4wIqJV #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/D7WcvrCVRj
— ONE (@ONEinAfrica) July 6, 2015My beautiful🌅 #senegal. Beauty is in the eyes of the viewer. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. http://t.co/176FOVwiBk pic.twitter.com/M4LWOhVdhL
— Layepro (@layepro) July 3, 2015These Nigerian TEENAGERS who invented a generator than runs on pee. 1l = 6hrs power! #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/hyTGhjOrFY
— Tracy Angus-Hammond (@T2T_Trace) July 6, 2015Essaka do dindi dauphins yi? RT @nyeusi_waasi: the Amazing pink lake in senegal #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/9whzCrYxF4
— Brünhild (@MariaLacouture) July 3, 2015Photos of Somalia #Puntland beaches. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/IIF3f7wgoe
— Naleye Abdirizak (@NaleyeAbdi) July 1, 2015