"Misery and poverty do exist, and the media should not be ignoring that. However, the status of the African continent cannot be judged without addressing the 500 years of slave trade. Our prosperity has been built by the unpaid labour of Black people and with the resources stolen from their countries of origin. We have become accustomed to seeing the Global South as a place of misery, which, thanks to bad governance, corrupt governments and uneducated people, is to blame for its own misery. We hold on to our images because it is more comfortable for us that way. Otherwise, we would have to rewrite our entire history. In her famous TED talk, author Chimananda Ngozi Adichie criticises the “danger of a single story” – the danger of continuing to tell a one-sided narrative about Africa and its people. It is time to leave the comfort zone, to finally teach the contexts truthfully and to recognise and question the colonial continuities, thereby allowing not only a new, but a more honest, image of Africa and Black people to emerge." (Conclusion, page 43-44)