The Dirty Reason Why Starving Children Are The Face Of Africa In The Media

I had the pleasure of visiting Africa a few years back, and it was far from the sh*thole I thought it would be.

I was gobsmacked at how vibrant, beautiful, and modern many of the cities were…

And how vibrant the people were…

Africa has its problems — and I saw that while I was there. But this was a far cry from the images I had been shown in the West.

The Archetypal Starving African Child Is Burned Into My Psyche

Growing up I can remember those old ‘feed the children” commercials of starving children in Africa.

Emaciated frames covered in flies. Toddlers scraping at the sides of empty cans for the smallest morsel of food. Little girls with cleft palates peering out from a dark shack.