shakahislop
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I'm in kinshasa for my work doing psyops and I'm going to write about it here, and we can have the thread to talk about Africa as well.
europe and america (ie us) have at this point a mostly imaginary relationship with africa I think. almost no one ever goes there unless you've got roots there or you're going for work or you're a more adventurous traveller. there's almost no lived experience. what happens instead is that africans come to the west. you can see the small cultural threads that emerge from that, in england a bit and in France too I think. a little nudge to the culture. something like care work for example has an african influence because of how many africans are involved.
ive been around a bit mostly to cities and never for very long. don't know if it's just illegible to me but cities in africa remind me of north america in that they're pretty similar to one another. I don't see big differences between eg Dakar, here and Addis. but perhaps I just can't see it coz I know so little and maybe the differences aren't so visual. europe and asia feel more different from country to country.
people talk about neo-colonialism in africa in particular. it's a vague piece of vocabulary but I can't see what they're talking about mostly. CAR is the exception coz there were french and canadian troops all over the place and I had the impression they were calling the shots. but generally i can't see much that looks like a colonial structure. i see foreign influences. but i don't think that's the same thing.
europe and america (ie us) have at this point a mostly imaginary relationship with africa I think. almost no one ever goes there unless you've got roots there or you're going for work or you're a more adventurous traveller. there's almost no lived experience. what happens instead is that africans come to the west. you can see the small cultural threads that emerge from that, in england a bit and in France too I think. a little nudge to the culture. something like care work for example has an african influence because of how many africans are involved.
ive been around a bit mostly to cities and never for very long. don't know if it's just illegible to me but cities in africa remind me of north america in that they're pretty similar to one another. I don't see big differences between eg Dakar, here and Addis. but perhaps I just can't see it coz I know so little and maybe the differences aren't so visual. europe and asia feel more different from country to country.
people talk about neo-colonialism in africa in particular. it's a vague piece of vocabulary but I can't see what they're talking about mostly. CAR is the exception coz there were french and canadian troops all over the place and I had the impression they were calling the shots. but generally i can't see much that looks like a colonial structure. i see foreign influences. but i don't think that's the same thing.