Briton's African gap year memoir sparks angry Twitter response
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/05/zambians-hit-back-at-white-saviour-gap-yah-memoir
Gap Year Gaffe
Western writer sparks social media storm over book outlining her experiences of war, spiders and smiling children with HIV
Westerners writing about their gap year in Africa should be aware of the risks by now. After Gap Yah guys satire of his time in Tanzaniaaa, Africaaa, where he actually saw someone contract Malariaaa, travellers have had to think carefully about how they talk about their year abroad.
At best they risk ridicule. At worst they will be accused of colonialism, cultural blindness and perpetuating an outdated narrative of the developing world for their own means.
But no one seemed to have warned Louise Linton, whose article How my dream gap year in Africa turned into a nightmare appeared in the Telegraph this week to promote a book about her experience.
Despite being in Zambia, she writes about becoming a central character in the Congolese war of the late 1990s terrified of what the rebels from across the border would do to the skinny white muzungu with long angel hair.
Much more at the link, including links to this individual's memoir and that of "Gap Yah guy."