Being Nigerian by parentage means I inevitably get asked about all things Nigerian that may appear in the media or some other avenue of pop-culture. To be sure, every culture has some media outlet that portrays it, at one point or another, in a negative light.
So what do you do about it? A filmmaker friend of mine, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had some great advice when some film (a few years back) committed such an offense. "Make your own movie," he said. It sounded glib when I first heard it, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. This extends to books, blogs, whatever. Ultimately, to paraphrase Gandhi, we have to be the change we want to see in the world.
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