What Foreigners Think About Africa

So today, I was skyping with this new American client and this guys seem to think that Africa is one big nation. He knows that I am from Kenya and he asks “Hey, I got a friend in Namibia, you know him?”. At first, he couldn’t believe that I am skyping from Africa (it is his first time) because he was referred by his friends. It’s like they think that Africa is one big nation with starving people with flies in their mouth. Most cant even name five countries in Africa. I now understand why they called it a dark continent because they knew mostly nothing about it.

I once saw a documentary on discovery channel that proclaimed that by the age of 9 all kenyans had been taught to light a fire from a stick and a stone

Should have shown him a shot of Nairobi’s skyline?

At least most of them understand the continent because of glabalisation and early exposure. I think false perception ndio shida. It also happened to me, I called someone in Germany na the lady was talking fluent English and I was thinking communication will be a challenge to both of us.
Just like the way we refer to them as Wazungu.
:mad::mad: dark continent!

Americans are quite ‘dumb’ and don’t really know much about stuff outside their countries.Hey some don’t even know stuff outside their own state and a significant number of them haven’t been outside their home state all their life!

Would have led him on and claimed that he wants to duck a monkey that is struggling to climb and take over his branch, alaaaa!
And in fact mention that he has to rub sticks together to light a fire!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D…hapa ktalk only @Eng’iti can.

You know some of them are dumb but most of them are smarter than the entire africa combined, i mean the same " Americans" invented Google maps which has pictures of Kenya’s state house!!!..leave alone that…rosevelt criscrosed kenya and the entire congo and sudan…he even went ahead and took one of the earliest footages of kenya …(search rosevelt kenya in YouTube)…u can find an American tourist who vists kenya has traveled vastly in kenya as compared to a typical kenya…

Their society is just like any other where 90% of the population are joyriders and 10% contribute their maximum to science and technology.

Pia sisi hujiita waafrika

Mkenya akiwa huko probably ako na tshirt ama jewelery ama tattoo ya continent ya Africa.

Well! Africa is one big nation… Ene it?

Disposable income yao iko juu compared to Kenyans

Hustle yako inakuaga gani mr,Brownskin.

Traveling around requires money and time. That is why only the likes of @FieldMarshal CouchP who are old and rich can afford to travel extensively. They have the time (because they are retired) and the cash. Most middle aged kenyans cant afford to travel because they either dont have the time, or the money or both

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Judging from the people you’re dealing with on Skype I have a feeling you’re dealing with very ignorant people. Most international are not that ignorant.
Unajaribu 419 scam ama?

On the flip side. Don’t all Africans think all wazungu are rich and wealthy. I have a broke friend from Germany who is on a safisha macho trip. He’s travelling with student loans and promises the world to these local damsels.

419 scam skyping with clients???Showing my face??Nice joke

Lucky dube curriculum…different colors, one people

The US school curriculum does not really cover world geography. As a result, many know little of the outside world. And mostly what they show about Africa on TV is a little backward, ( think wars, disease, jungles, etc). So that is the perception that most Americans have until they come to Africa. But all in all in terms of wazungu, I find Americans the most accommodating.

10 percent ride on the others.