Not exact matches
Speaking at the Georgetown University, Washington DC on Saturday, Saraki said previous
images of Africa as land of disease and wars and famine have
changed noting that even western media that used to
portray the continent as dark now have programmes dedicated to celebrating the new day in Africa.
This subtle
change portrays the
image of a woman who is confident, in control and knows what she wants.
The problem is, all the pictures I can find tend to support the mythological position; in attempting to
portray the various vertical
changes in a single, static,
image, they create this illusion that the temperature
changes but the water remains in place.
Their fickle attention spans and casual attitudes were cited as signs that the generation did not in fact have the intestinal fortitude it would require to execute
change, as opposed to just talking about it when it's the cool thing to do.As I prepare to travel to Copenhagen on Friday for the UN climate summit, I'm struck by how different an experience I've had as the executive director of the Energy Action Coalition, an alliance of more than 50 environmental groups run by young people, than the
image that has been
portrayed of my peers.