Looking For Lovedu Analysis

Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa is a riveting story about Ann Jones's journey through Africa. Throughout the novel, Ann Jones's mentions the “Western World's view on Africa. Not only do most westerners have a negative view on Africa, but a completely misunderstood point of view on Africa. Africa is a beautiful continent with fascinating cultures and amazing people, yet most of the western world fails to see the beauty that is Africa. Based on Ann Jones’s novel, most westerners have a misconception about Africa, and view it as unhealthy, a dark continent, unimportant to history, and unresourceful.
Most westerners believe that all of africa is aid ridden and disease stricken, but they are wrong. According to Ann jones, “it;s the hard-times Africa you read about:...disaffected Western journalist whose secret woe is that the AIDS epidemic makes it too risky to to get laid.” (37) This shows that the shallow minds of western culture do not realize the major problem of the epidemic, they only realize that they can not get what they want because of it. In addition, they not realize that AIDS is in a SMALL part of africa, they, we, assume it has taken over the whole continent. Many people in the western world believe that
As said by Jones, “What makes africa ‘dark’ is our own ignorance of the place.” (35) The saying of “dark continent” was created by the europeans in the 19th century because Africa was unknown to them at that time. Now it considered as an offensive name. It is offensive because the Europeans thought they they were the almighty rulers of everything, and because Africa was unknown to them, that it was completely unexplored and uncultured. This again leads back to the incapacity to realize the truth by us westerners, and therefore causes a fail to comprehend of the beautiful