Thread by @Otto_Orondaam

Hey Friends, Let's do a reality check.
So I'm going to show you a couple of Images and I'll like to know what comes to your mind once you see them.
Slowly spend 5 seconds looking at each of these image and note down what you think it represents.

Are you ready ?

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Two Machetes Lying On The Floor Beside a woman's Legs.
They Could Be Cutlasses or Knives.
What Comes To Your Mind ?
#Picture01

A Kerosene lantern, used to light up
a small room.
Where could this be located ?
#Picture02

If you said this is a Slum, You are possibly right.
It Could be Maybe, Kibera, Makoko, Mathare, Korogocho etc
But what does it signify and what kind of people live here ?

A fancy beach with clear blue water, blue skies, a luxurious yatch anchored by the shores, beautiful trees and happy tourists about to go surfing.
Where could this beach be located ?

So this is the first picture of two Machetes on the floor. But the complete picture shows four beautiful African women celebrating their harvest while returning from the farm.
If you guessed War or Fighting, rethink again because that isn't a true representation of Africa.

If you guessed that the Kerosene lantern was in a remote village lacking electricity you were wrong, because this is a 5 Star luxurious camp inside the Nairobi National Park where 24 hours power is provided, but Lanterns are still preferred for warmth and lighting.

And if you said that poor, helpless & dirty people lived in the slum, then think again. This is a happy, well dressed & content father who could have raised 6 children in the Kibera slum who are now Pilots, Doctors, Entrepreneurs, Lawyers, Innovators, Social Reformers et al.

And finally if you thought that the beach was somewhere in Miami or the Caribbean islands then rethink.
This is a typical beautiful beach filled with tourists, in Diani, Mambosa, Seychelles, Ilashe, The Gambia, Rep. of Benin and all across Africa. True beauty lies around us.

As Africans we need to always ask for the full picture and seize from making prejudiced judgements from a one sided picture.
We need to tell our true stories, celebrate our beauty and realize that Africa is filled with perfection.

We need to discard every divisive, stereotypical & dehumanizing belief we inherited and realize that true beauty lies in everyone of us irrespective of our religious or cultural differences.
We need to put love first and look for the diamond in every seemingly rough.

As Africans we need to beware of the danger of a single interpretation. From politics to religion, from economics to entertainment are people who have embraced and inherited dogmas and doctrines that are outright false and incomplete in most cases. Context is everything.