Chude Jideonwo co-founder of Future Awards states:
In 2000, the Economist made a bold declaration about Africa: it called us the hopeless continent.
We screamed. We protested. Oyinbo people are trying to put us down. They are insulting us. It’s time for us to tell our own stories. E. T. C.
So by 2011, the foreign media had gotten the message, and the narrative changed: Africa, they declared, is now rising. BRICS, MINTs, N-11… the hopeless continent is now bustling with hope. Hope, change, love, joy. The middle class now had more pot-bellies. And all of us cheered. Pride restored. Victory secured. Battle won.
But what exactly did we win?...[more]
