Vinay Mavani

Africa is a huge continent that has attracted throughout the years a lot of attention through curiosity and beauty to its variety of wildlife. However apart from this the continent has also received its share of criticism and has been usually portrayed in the media as a continent full of disease and war, with apparently only wild animals. Which was also my perception as I had not seen anything else, but the image the media portrayed of it -  Vinay Mavani . However my views of Africa changed about 11 years ago now, when my parents decided to take me to the country of my ancestors & roots Ghana. Before my trip were the fears that I always had of Africa; poor children walking around, people begging at every street corner, rebels fighting in the streets and an immediate war coming for no reason. Once I arrived I was surprised to see the same environment as in London. People going shopping in malls, people driving some of the nicest cars around and no views of poor children starvi