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"I have never dug so many graves before in my life. Some days it is up to 12 graves."
—Gravedigger Dhagane Abdullah, Imi, Ethiopia
Some critics complain that Africa features in the media only when the story is about AIDS or famine, and that this reinforces negative stereotyping. Do images such as the one above shape the way viewers imagine the continent and its people?