Mediante el hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou, cada vez más jóvenes africanos están mostrando la mejor cara de África, la que no suele aparecer en los medios.
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 #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/wRrGf0Cskj
— blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 25, 2015
Welcome to Ghana. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/vVgYSYwhxK
— @sxmeon new account (@SimeonLFC) June 24, 2015
african street style #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/UlfRkFdkCh
— blige romanova (@THECAROLDANVERS) June 24, 2015
Africa has 3 female heads of state. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/oH4AYRRV3w
— Nad!a A. (@Nadiaalie) June 24, 2015
#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou Ghana, Somalia, Egyptian, Rwanda WEDDINGS. pic.twitter.com/6AzkmXB8vi
— Venus (@MacheteVenus) June 24, 2015
Diversity for days, weeks, decades, centuries, millenniums. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/ttGhpvrx23
— Captain Africa (@See_Say_92) June 23, 2015
Rwanda has the highest percentage of female lawmakers in the entire world 😊#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/J8EBfUrOPR
— G.O.M.D (@phosa__m) June 24, 2015
In Tanzania, moms and babies are getting a healthy start with @Compassion. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/9HJWK95hzm
— Compassion Intl (@compassion) July 8, 2015
54 countries
1500 - 2000 spoken languages
3000+ ethnic groups #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/XbaPPCFlHY
— ForgottenBeauty (@forgottenFINES) July 5, 2015
My beautiful🌅 #senegal. Beauty is in the eyes of the viewer. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. http://t.co/176FOVwiBkpic.twitter.com/M4LWOhVdhL
— Layepro (@layepro) July 3, 2015
Children of Mauritania 🇲🇷 #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/ppJI8u8Ghb
— ForgottenBeauty (@forgottenFINES) July 5, 2015
Moroccan Architecture 🇲🇦 #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/jTqWxVPPhC
— 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, 2015
Such 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/GlEuPwJqEDpic.twitter.com/2yRWSV5iux
— BET (@BET) July 6, 2015
50,000 images that will change how you see Africa! http://t.co/yK9F4wIqJV#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/D7WcvrCVRj
— ONE (@ONEinAfrica) July 6, 2015
My beautiful🌅 #senegal. Beauty is in the eyes of the viewer. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. http://t.co/176FOVwiBkpic.twitter.com/M4LWOhVdhL
— Layepro (@layepro) July 3, 2015
These Nigerian TEENAGERS who invented a generator than runs on pee. 1l = 6hrs power! #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/hyTGhjOrFY
— Tracy Angus-Hammond (@T2T_Trace) July 6, 2015
Essaka do dindi dauphins yi? RT @nyeusi_waasi: the Amazing pink lake in senegal #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/9whzCrYxF4
— Brünhild (@MariaLacouture) July 3, 2015
Photos of Somalia #Puntland beaches. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYoupic.twitter.com/IIF3f7wgoe
— Naleye Abdirizak (@NaleyeAbdi) July 1, 2015