tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post932135416269769071..comments2024-03-29T08:55:34.078+00:00Comments on ImageNations: Duality: Dickens in Lagos, and Asimov tooImageNationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-20270433670356918522011-03-29T17:05:31.218+00:002011-03-29T17:05:31.218+00:00Thanks Geosi...Thanks Geosi...ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-90464761371686204412011-03-29T16:58:15.709+00:002011-03-29T16:58:15.709+00:00Like Stefania, I also like the title for the post....Like Stefania, I also like the title for the post. It is one of those that makes you say 'huh! Dickens in Lagos??' until one has read the entire content of the post. I enjoyed your thoughts here.Geosi Readshttp://geosireads.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-74665678946234884522011-03-29T14:29:34.607+00:002011-03-29T14:29:34.607+00:00@Stefania... would still be waiting....
"lik...@Stefania... would still be waiting....<br /><br />"like Naipaul does!" lol.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-16662963074358615672011-03-29T14:22:57.719+00:002011-03-29T14:22:57.719+00:00@NFA: thanks for the compliments. Anyways, I think...@NFA: thanks for the compliments. Anyways, I think I'm doing a post on poetry and then the review.<br /><br />@NYS: I don't think that we are taught to hate Africa and African people, but that we are rather encouraged to pity them and to consider the whole continent hopeless (like Naipaul does!).Stefania - The Italian Backpackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208023950547260256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-26067526639886248222011-03-29T11:11:05.447+00:002011-03-29T11:11:05.447+00:00@NYS, what about those of us who borrow from this ...@NYS, what about those of us who borrow from this ideology to popularise ourselves? Like those writers whose views coincide with these views. I hope you can cite an example. Remember Barcamp last year? No name mentioned but you heard that lady who fed directly into this body of thought? And where's she from? Ghana, of-course! So as long as we allow it, so shall it be.<br /><br />However, gradually things are changing, as Stefania said. Cliches are just what they are, cliches. And they have outlived their usefulness. However, there are those who prefer being dumbs, they would continue to remain ignorant and listen to their medias. These individuals travel all the way from their countries only to confirm and in doing so see nothing other than the Dickensian part.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-13302841580224603022011-03-29T10:19:21.424+00:002011-03-29T10:19:21.424+00:00It simply stinks when you observe that a supposed ...It simply stinks when you observe that a supposed people who have all the tools to access information become comfortable to the deception of their own mind-controlling media. In the end, they are just androids who think they are intellectual enough. The history of all these is that, a culture of hatred has been taught to almost every person from the West so that they hate anything African--see it as diseased, dirty and incapable of progress. In a nutshell, Accra Mall or Labone or Osu, or Legon or Tema cannot be Ghana. Sheer stupidity.Nanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01413871396464391462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-24758803967711043592011-03-28T20:25:20.029+00:002011-03-28T20:25:20.029+00:00@Stefania it's rather pitiful when people go t...@Stefania it's rather pitiful when people go through a lot of hassle just to report preconceived ideas. In so doing they learn nothing other than what they came with. I also agree that things are gradually changing. However, it would also take some effort from those of us on continent. I hope you also know that some writers from the continent have taken advantage of this perception to pen stories that would only popularize them. <br /><br />I would be reading your review. I always enjoy them. You are one of the first bloggers i followed and took a lot of inspiration from you.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29803016.post-62443484470895631612011-03-28T18:57:48.911+00:002011-03-28T18:57:48.911+00:00Thanks for this Nana. It's a powerful essay an...Thanks for this Nana. It's a powerful essay and I like the expression you used: "There is Dickens in Lagos, and Asimov too". You are totally right when you say that there are beggars in western countries, and homeless, jobless people too. Even in the richest country in the world, USA, there are great disparities and degraded, dangerous areas that could be called Dickensian. Not all westerners live in Los Angeles or New York!<br /><br />Also, I think it's sad that what medias portray, and what westerners come to see in Africa is what you call its "condition", without acknowledging other realities. There is the tendency of using "poverty porn" by a part of the medias, so that we are morbidly fascinated by the suffering of others. Nonetheless, I think that now it is better than it used to be 10 or 15 years ago. Networks like Al Jazeera or BBC World News have started to show the positive realities that exist in Africa. In literature, as well, I think that the middle class is now represented (for example in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work).<br /><br />PS: My next review is maybe a bit related to this topic, because - among other things - this last book I read ("The Skin Between Us" by Ky Ragusa) tells of how much certain neighboorhoods of New York and Palermo can be dangerous due to crime.Stefania - The Italian Backpackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208023950547260256noreply@blogger.com