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Author Doh, Emmanuel Fru

Title Stereotyping Africa : Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions
Published Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Part One. The Introduction: On Painting a Portrait; Part Two. Questions and Answers; Attitude; Age; Children; Colonialism; Communication; Crime; Death; The Diaspora; Economy; Education; Family; Fashion; Geography; Habits/Cultural Practices; Health; Housing; Judiciary; Landscape; Languages; Nutrition/Eating Habits; Occupation; Politics/Government; Religion; Sexuality; Sports; Music; Technology; Transportation; Utilities; Men and Women; Part Three. The Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Back Cover
Summary Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about ""Africa, "" as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state. So one begins wondering why it is that Africans, on the other hand, do not refer to individual European countries as ""Europe"" simply, then the trends and consequences of stereotyping begin setting in just as one is getting used to being asked if Africa has a president, or if one can say something in African. It is some of these questions that Emmanuel Fru Doh has
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Subject Social sciences.
Social Sciences
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social sciences
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956579020
9956579025