»Soloko usebenzisa igama elithi 'Afrika' okanye 'Ubumnyama' okanye 'iSafari' kwisihloko sakho...Ungaze ube nomfanekiso womAfrika olungiswe kakuhle kuqweqwe lwencwadi yakho, okanye kuyo, ngaphandle kokuba umAfrika uphumelele iNobel. Ibhaso. I-AK-47, iimbambo ezibalaseleyo, amabele ahamba ze: sebenzisa ezi. Ukuba kufuneka ubandakanye umAfrika, qiniseka ukuba ufumana isiMasai okanye isizulu okanye ilokhwe yeDogon. -Binyavanga Wainaina, Indlela yokuBhala ngeAfrika
»Kulula ukuxela xa iqweqwe lemagazini lingeTshayina. Abarhanelwa abaqhelekileyo bavela: iidragons, uMongameli Xi Jinping, iflegi yeenkwenkwezi ezintlanu, kunye nobomvu. Ubomvu obuninzi." - uSelina Lee kunye noRamona Li, uMgaqo-nkqubo waNgaphandle
Ucalucalulo lobuhlanga kunye ne-colonial tropes malunga namazwe angengowasentshona kunye noluntu luyaqhubeka kumajelo eendaba mihla le. Iworkshop iya kugxila kumajelo amakhulu esiNgesi kunye nesiJamani ashicilelwe kwiveki yomcimbi. Sikunye, siya kuchonga kwaye sicazulule i-clichés kunye neengxelo ezibalisayo kwaye sihlolisise ingcamango "yokungathathi hlangothi kwentatheli". Ngokusebenzisa ukugxeka okuhlangeneyo kunye nokucinga kwakhona ngokuyilayo, abathathi-nxaxheba baya kubandakanyeka kumava okusebenza ukuphuhlisa ukubandakanya kunye nokuxhobisa amabali kunye nemifanekiso.
Iworkshop ijolise ekuxhobiseni abaqeqeshi beendaba abavela kwiimvelaphi ezahlukeneyo ukuba badlale indima ebonakalayo ekulungiseni intetho yemidiya kunye nokukhuthaza ukumelwa okunoxanduva. Abafundi, amatsha ntliziyo, kunye nabani na onomdla wokuqonda kunye nocelomngeni lwe-media stereotypes bamkelekile ukuba bajoyine. Olona lwimi luthethwayo kule workshop sisiNgesi, kodwa abantu abathetha isiJamani bamkelekile.
Zonke izinto eziyimfuneko ziya kubonelelwa kumasifundisane. Yiza nelizwi lakho, amabali akho, kunye namava akho!
Iilwimi: IsiJamani kunye nesiNgesi
kunye no: Charlotte Ming kunye noDominique Haensell
