{"id":10943,"date":"2014-05-15T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2014-05-14T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T03:23:47","slug":"why-do-books-on-africa-look-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-do-books-on-africa-look-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Books On Africa Look The Same?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/051514_0322_WhyDoBooksO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On any given book on Africa chances are that the cover features a red sunset or an acacia tree or both. Michael Silverberg took a look at why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cover designers aren&#8217;t necessarily worldly in their outlook and may not know a lot about African countries.<\/li>\n<li>In such circumstances it is safer to fall back upon existing clich\u00e9s.<\/li>\n<li>When there are exceptions to this cover design it is usually because the author is female or Muslim \u2013 and then clich\u00e9s for female or Muslim authored books are used on the cover instead.<\/li>\n<li>Someday there&#8217;ll be a bestselling book on Africa that won&#8217;t resort to this trope for its cover. This bestseller&#8217;s cover will then become the new clich\u00e9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/207527\/the-reason-every-book-about-africa-has-the-same-cover-and-its-not-pretty\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/207527\/the-reason-every-book-about-africa-has-the-same-cover-and-its-not-pretty\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any given book on Africa chances are that the cover features a red sunset or an acacia tree or both. Michael Silverberg took a look at why: Cover designers aren&#8217;t necessarily worldly in their outlook and may not know a lot about African countries. In such circumstances it is safer to fall back upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/051514_0322_WhyDoBooksO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}