After Madonna Was Roasted For Claiming People In Kibera Drink From A Sewer, ‘Skinny Mzungu With White Angel Hair’ Gets Slammed For Her Exaggerated And Erroneous Description Of Her Year Spent In Africa

By Sue Watiri on July 6, 2016

Back in the day before the advent of Social Media, Africans could only hold in their rage for how the western media portrayed Africa.

Thanks to this negative portrayal, most people outside Africa view it as a continent that suffers from poverty, war and disease. And that is why most tourists often ride on this stereotype for self-promotional purposes where they look like saints for getting out of their comfort zone to help ‘poor Africans’ in the ‘disease-ridden, war-ravaged and poverty-stricken continent’

Sadly, Madonna who you would expect is more informed about Africa is among these tourists who are spreading these stereotypes.The pop queen shared a picture of a Kibera open sewer which she claims is drinking water, something which irked her Kenyan followers who mercilessly slammed her for it.

Madonna Posted” Imagine this is where your water comes from! @shofco is working to change this in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum.”

Now a Hollywood actress of Scottish descent is getting dragged all over Twitter for her exaggerated account of her gap-year in Zambia and about the ‘Hutu-Tutsi-war In Congo.

In her In Congo’s Shadow: One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa. memoir (part of which was published by The Telegraph) Louise Linton writes “… soon learned that Africa is rife with hidden danger. I witnessed random acts of violence, contracted malaria and had close encounters with lions, elephants, crocodiles and snakes. As monsoon season came and went, the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in neighboring Congo began to escalate and then spill over into Zambia with repercussions all along the lake. Thousands of people were displaced and we heard brutal tales of rape and murder.”

The Daily Telegraph published an excerpt of a memoir about a woman's time spent volunteering in Zambia as a teenager. Louise Linton wrote about caring for an HIV-positive orphan and hiding out from murderous rebels. Sounds terrifying — except people say her story doesn't add up.

She also went on to reveal that she feared for her life after she was forced to flee from rebels who she believed would attack her for being a ’skinny white muzungu with long angel hair’

Her story was flawed, self-promotional and greatly exaggerated a lot of things. And this has earned her the rage of Africans who are clapping back under the hashtag #LintonLies with even the Scottish people distancing themselves from her.