Why Did Melania Trump’s Trip To Africa Seem Like The Special Edition of The Colonizer’s Handbook?

Ezinne Ukoha
8 min readOct 8, 2018

When it was announced that First Lady Melania Trump would embark on a solo trip to “Africa,” it was hard not to indulge in an extended session of major eye rolling — based on the usually annoying way in which the media methodically and lazily reduces the enormously vast and diverse continent of Africa — into a gigantic…

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