A few years ago, there was a movement by African media leaders to create an African narration of itself. The proposal aimed at reversing the racist or colonial perspective of Africa and telling African stories in African way. To understand this, I usually think of ways of things are done at home, Ethiopia. Let me give you an example from home. Foreign media or any reference of an Ethiopian is so strange until that Ethiopian learns about it. In my little experience of travel and even in reference of foreign media, I found myself usually referred as someone whom I am not. The wikipedia page that has my profile, for example, reads my story as Hailu's, my father. Jokes aside, foreigners usually referred to me by my father's name mostly, and by my grandfather's name seldom. They call it Sur Name or Family Name while we have no such thing. I want to be called in my own way, the cultural way I have lived. But no one cares because the standard is set in the European way. ...
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