![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a book of over 700 pages Martin Meredith has provided an exhaustive account of Africa’s record since independence in an attempt to prove that Africa’s situation is hopeless and the reason for its hopeless predicament is African leadership. ![]() The same media and publishing industry is also hard at work on Africa itself. It is not only Zimbabwe that attracts the mythmakers and stereotype peddlers. In 2013 I published my own book, Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes, in which I too tried to show that there is an alternative story to be told about Zimbabwe. In 2010 Professor Scoones published his book on Zimbabwe, entitled Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Reality, in which he set out to prove that much of what was being touted by various authors and the media about the land reform in Zimbabwe was not true and was simply myths. African history is being re-written every day, not to a large extent by the Africans themselves, but by the international media and publishing industry that has a vested interest in developing and propagating stereotypes and myths about Africa which when presented over and over again begin to be accepted, by Africans themselves, as facts, which no longer need to be analysed or argued. ![]()
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