White woman criticized for portraying Africa as a jungle in her book

In an article published in Telegraph titled "How my dream gap year in Africa turned into a nightmare”, Louise Linton, a white Scottish actress has been criticized for her portrayal of Zambia and Africa in general as a place riddled with hunger, rape, murder, wild animals and flesh eating rebels.

The fabricated memoir, In Congo’s Shadow: One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa self published in April, is described as “the inspiring memoir of an intrepid teenager who abandoned her privileged life in Scotland to travel to Zambia as a gap year student where she found herself inadvertently caught up on the fringe of the Congolese War.”

Well, people questioned the accuracy of her account as the hashtag #LintonLies started to trend.

Then people, such as BBC Africa’s Victoria Uwonkunda, began calling out what they said were objectionable stereotypes and questionable claims.

“Hell hath no fury like an African scorned,” tweeted BBC presenter Sophie Ikenye.

Hell Hath no Fury like a scorned African:

As of Monday evening, the book had more than 200 Amazon reviews, the majority of which are recent and negative.

BuzzFeed later discovered Louise Linton is in a relationship with Donald Trump’s top fundraiser.

She is said to be dating Steven Mnuchin, the recently appointed national finance chair for Trump’s presidential campaign.

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