Many #Africans think Western media is rather disappointed that the #COVID19 is not as sexy as the movie Outbreak - starting deep in an African jungle with White Saviors not white victims
They question headlines such as this one by France24 france24.com/en/20200301-wi…
Plus this coverage by the BBC - one of the most respected news brands on the continent bbc.com/news/world-afr…
In a reversal of the narrative #Uganda’s @MinofHealthUG has “banned” several European countries. In contrast to the Ebola outbreak when travel from Africa became a touchy subject - nearly 2 dozen travelers from Europe were turned away from Uganda after refusing to quarantine
Narrative wars are often built on the architecture of the science and the facts - so regardless of what happens next it would appear #COVID19 is turning around the fantasy framework of the evil disease that reaches out from the bowels of the dark continent to kill us all- unless
Perhaps the next @netflix series on a doomsday outbreak will be set in Nigeria, featuring African genius nerds working with a team of Chinese scientists in a race against time - while the white super rich park yachts outside Lagos begging to be let in.
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