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Africa: Misrepresentation of Africa in Movies

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arts & Culture, Film

Africa is a Country discusses the film Madagascar in the context of Africa's image in movies [1]: “It doesn’t take a microscopic reading to see that Madagascar is a colonial narrative. The West is represented as the norm, and Africa is represented as savage and exotic to promote the idea of Western normalcy.”