Wainaina uses plenty of repetition of the words, “always”, and “never”, as asserting declarations to evoke a tone of blunt sarcasm. In embodying a tone of sarcasm, mockery, and humor, Wainaina gives insight into the false impressions evoked predominantly in the texts of Western writers on Africa. Such an interruption on the part of the Western authors never takes place and thus, fails to produce diverse impressions of the world of Africa. Thus, uncertainty, as a mode, disrupts and intervenes with an innate notion of reliability, that echoes what is known for sure, from the side of the listener, observer, or writer. The idea is that uncertainty should be kept as a mode with respect to listening or seeing or writing, and in every way, no matter what, they allow a tendency of hesitation and doubt to come up. These impressions arise out of a lack of uncertainty that fails to open up a diverse way of writing from the side of Western authors. Wainaina, infuriated by the imitations and exaggerations on the African continent, exceptionally captures the essence of the absurdity lying within the Western impressions of a “dark “continent”, an Africa they presume to be. And finally, “Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances” because this shows that the Western writers care immensely about the “dark continent” of Africa that can only be saved from the doom by the Western “intervention and your important book”. Africa is a beautiful place because of their sunsets, the writer reminds Western writers to never forget to include them. When writing about Africa, the writer asks the Western writer to establish their “impeccable” liberalism that portrays how much they love Africa and can never live without her.
The writer further goes on to satirically say that the “real Africa” is always when there is abundant mention of filthy people and their suffering, miserable life.
And their African characters should always include “naked warriors, loyal servants”, or “ancient wise men living in hermitic splendour”, even more, a necessary character that needs to be present in the story is the “The Starving African”. Moreover, Africa has to be always “pitied, worshipped or dominated” and for the African people, he asks them to absolutely make sure that they are empty inside but yet they should have “music and rhythm” in their deep down souls.
But never be precise about any of these because “your readers doesn’t care about all that”. The writer furthermore, asks the Western writers to always see Africa as “one country”, even though Africa is big with 54 countries.
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