I totally agree. If you visit Africa or have any meaningful contact with Africans what you experience is people who on the whole have an amazing ability to improvise, create solutions to problems, make successful small businesses, build their own lives and help their communities, and work damn hard — as a European I can only admit I couldn’t keep up or do half what they do. Of course there are scumbags in Africa who run criminal activities or commit atrocities but unfortunately that is not unique to Africa! I especially admire the African women I know not just because so many are beautiful and have so much style about them but because they are often so brave, morally and physically, — winning a Nobel prize was long overdue for an African woman. Sadly, Africa is only ever seen in Western media as a news story and usually a bad news story. We rarely see African movies or hear African music — our loss. If we did we might realise that Africans are human too and there are a huge variety of African cultures not just one lump it together all-Africans-are-the-same culture! Even thinking about the bad news stories, although they usually show Africans in crisis (war, famine, disease, poverty, homelessness etc) what comes across to me is that anyone in those situations would suffer the same way and suffering because of e.g. a war does not mean you personally are someone inadequate or ‘racially inferior’. Anyone in a war or famine or other crisis will find it tough. None of us is immune to the human condition whatever our skin colour or culture. All best wishes to you and God grant that we never have to find out the hard way what it is like to be caught up in a civil war. Amen.