The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Africa isn’t prosperity but rather failure. An article called A Hopeful Continent, from the news source, The Economist explains that in most cases this is far from the truth. In fact some places in Europe could be considered worse off than those in Africa. This quote from the article sums up the impact of African media coverage of Moldova, “They inspire pity and disbelief, just as tales of disease and disorder in Africa have long done in the rich world” (The Economist Pg 1). This is the kind of reaction that you would think people from the western world would give when hearing about Africa. But when one hears about the continent it seems that all there is to talk about is the bad. Most media especially the news thrives off of sad and depressing stories more often than good ones. Can you blame a person for thinking that Africa is a backwater continent is that’s all the media represents it as? I believe that as time goes on this representation will change, as the article stated things are getting better, not everywhere is perfect but it is also far from terrible. As Africa’s economy grows as a whole more money will flow into the continent and will continuously progress until this backwards representation of the continent changes.