A woman from Zimbabwe was shocked when an American man asked her a question which will come across as very ignorant and strange.
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda and Ashley Judd
On Tuesday, March 15, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer & General Secretary, World YWCA, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda was at a hotel reception in the U.S when a man asked her the ignorant questions.
For over twenty years, Mrs Gumbonzvanda (pictured above with Hollywood actress, Ashley Judd) has been working on issues of women and children's human rights with a special focus on crisis countries.
Below is what Mrs Gumbonzvanda shared on her Facebook page about the experience:
"Okay, I was taken aback and am kind of angry and sad at ignorance, but more so at the perception of Africa. I was collecting my keys at the hotel reception and this guys said, aaah, you are from Africa, from Zimbabwe right? I said yes. He was holding my passport. Then he went on to say with true conviction "wow, how do you live with giraffes and the lions? Are you not afraid to just kind of wake up and see a lion staring at you?" I looked at him, and said no am not afraid. we are all part of nature. I am still nursing some sad feeling about how many people in this United States of America do not really know about Africa and have warped ideas. Or it's maybe only this single guy. Ummm"
Unsurprisngly, after she shared the story on her page, many of her followers expressed anger and total disgust at the perception of Americans and generally, white People, about Africans.
Some even went as far as heaping curses on the man who asked her what they termed "foolish questions"