street credit : on food, cultural and survival of african cities.

Street credit: The cultural politics of african street children's hunger.  

Karen Coen Flynn is the author of "Food,cultural and survival in an african city". This article shows the dynamics of poverty and survival strategies in urban Africa. Using variables like culture,race,class and gender, Flynn explores how people negotiates life and survives in a poverty striken environment and society. the rural people of Africa live a miserable life as compared to the urban cities. The author also throws light on the food provisioning process and how it is affected by poverty, gender and  ethnicity, as well as the concepts of charity, health and mortality. The author also emphasises of the diverse ways in which the children fed themselves, their acquisition of food, in the form of private charity appeared to be strikingly significant because in these situations the children were not the ones seeking to gain an advantage. i feel lucky and blessed since I don't have to go through what the children of some of the african cities are going through.



I really like the text " Even before the children are old enough to go to school, they learn their responsibilities." because here it shows that though the children of the african cities may not be educated and well brought up, they know where they stand and what responsibilities they need to work on. I feel they learn or give importance to responsibilities because they were brought up in a very unhealthy and uneducated society. they went through all the hardship while growing up. for examples, the author even talks about how the female child of the family helps her mother in household works and as well as babysitting her younger siblings, while the male child help their father in outdoor activities indoor to increase the per capita income of their family. I personally feel, that knowing our individual responsibilities are more important to become someone successful rather than just having good brains and not knowing where we stand.