Anthony Bourdain’s Window into Africa

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Anthony Bourdain’s Window into Africa

Bourdain was critical of the single story, critical of widely held stereotypes and perhaps most critical of his own position as a masterful storyteller.

via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/06/anthony-bourdains-window-africa.html

I was especially interested in the way the show depicted Africa, a continent Western media tends to portray using what novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie famously called a “single story” – a monolithic narrative of poverty, backwardness and hopelessness.

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