Africa
How many countries are their in Africa
54
This term is when representing cultural mixtures "kente cloth worn over low-waisted jeans" and "London meets Lagos meets Durban meets Dakar."
Hybridity
Who wrote the story
Taiye Selasi
What is the most spoken languages in africa
Swahili
The author uses this term to describe the young African diaspora characterized by their cosmopolitan upbringing and global influences.
Afropolitan
What is the message
Change of perspective and stereotypes
what is the deadliest animal in Africa
Mosquito
The description of African immigrants as "pharmacists, physicists, physicians" followed by caricatures like the "Nigerian physics professor with faux-Coogi sweater" critiques this fixed, oversimplified belief about people.
Stereotypes
How many highly skilled Africans left the Continent for the West in the period 1960-1975?
27000 people
What is the only countries not to be colonised
Ethiopia and Libya
When discussing young Africans who "belong to no single geography, but feel at home in many," this term captures their scattered existence across the globe.
Diaspora
Where and what day of the week does the story start
Thursday
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
The text talks about the feeling of being "lost in transnation," as the Afropolitan navigates their identity amid conflicting cultural influences. This experience aligns closely with this term describing the sense of being disconnected or estranged.
Alienation
What is the starting setting of the story
midnight on Thursday night at Medicine Bar in London