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From the Heart of an African

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Myriam Montrat
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After spending one year in the United States, I realize how ignorant Americans are about Africa. For example, a woman felt sorry for me because she thought that everyone in my country, the Ivory Coast, was starving. Of course she was making a direct connection with the starvation problem in Somalia, which was at that time of the year receiving great coverage. She did not know where the Ivory Coast was located, and apparently Somalia and the Ivory Coast meant the same thing to her.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 5 - 6
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1994

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Myriam Montrât is a student from the Ivory Coast currently at Colby College.