If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.
もしも 私がナイジェリア出身ではなく アフリカの知識をイメージから得ていたら 私が持つ印象も 綺麗な景色や 動物 そして無意味な戦争をする― 理解できない人たち 貧困とエイズで死んでいき 人々は意見も言えずに 親切な白人の救いの手を