As ek nie in Nigerië grootgeword het nie, en as my Afrikakennis uit alledaagse beelde gekom het, sou ek ook dink dat Afrika ’n plek van pragtige landskappe, mooi diere, en onverstaanbare mense is, aan't oorlogvoer, sterwend van armoede of VIGS, nie in staat daartoe om vir hulleself te praat nie en wagtend om verlossing deur ’n gawe, wit vreemdeling.
If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.