How to write about Afica / The danger of a single story

I read this article long time ago
but i was not blogging then...
i also happen to kno that the writer is a good cook too
met him back in da dayz
in mah cape town daze
but i also did not expect to find it on youtube


funny thing is
now some other multi-western-ngo
is using it for its benefit....sigh!
i guess that why he felt he needed to respon
here
but wait
mah favourite story teller
in the same vain as the other article
has this to say:
The danger of a single story



in ya dis ya time y'all

Forget Africa: the response

Here is the response from the man
whats disturbing about this whole thingie
is that these are the self elect people who claim to be championing Africa's cause
and this is a common thread here in Europe
its irritating to say the least
but eh go so
...
ofcourse i responded, but will let it go
an move on to other tings n times
in ya dis ya time y'all

The mo tings change the mo dem stay da same

In ya dis ya time y'all

Haiti :The devastation began in 1492

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In ya dis ya time y'all

Forget Africa

I neva mentioned this
but during the festival in Rotterdam
there was a section dedicated to African Films
and it was called...drum roll please
Forget Africa / Where is Africa
here
this title was off putting to say the least
so i ended up not followin this programe
yes i got to see two or three movies and linked up with some nice peeps
so
below is the letter that i sent to the Programmer
i am yet to get a response
in ya dis ya time y'all.

rasta baby

yu check the rasta babies on the side
yu kno i happen to have met someone who claims
that he has met this here gyal on this drawing
and the artist who made these famous drawings/paintings

if yu looks closely at dem pics
yu see at the bottom the artist signature the year the title [well is small print but trus me]
Ras Daniel 1976 Princes Desta

Princes Desta is now in her late thirties or sumting
She was spotted in amsterdam a coupla years back
still lookin fine and still dread

these pics yu see posted here
i took them
i took the picture of the drawings
they hang on the wall somewhere in someones house

and das how me got to kno about princess desta
an put a name to the artist who made such fine simple yet
captivating famous most bootlegged and copywrite infringed drawings/paintings of all time in rasta history
[after bob marley ofcourse]
inna dis ya time

dis n dat

i got this friend
is interesting how him talk
him always manages to say/state what day is it
always all the time fo evry topic argument discussion joke or whatever
for example,
me seh: wha ah yu doing tomoro
him seh: tomoro...eeeh...tomoro is tuesday
or
him seh: gal wha ah yu doing tomoro, tomoro is sunday
or
me seh: dem say is gonna snow tomoro
him seh: tomoro? tomoro is friday
or
me seh: what did you do las nite
him seh: las nite? last nite was thursday...

and so it goes......

is so funny cos everytime afta talkin to him
me know exactly wha day it is or is gonna be or has been
the past the present the future
in ya dis ya time y'all