Nigerians Report Online: 2010 TIME 100: A Compilation of Western Ignorance of the rest of the World

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

2010 TIME 100: A Compilation of Western Ignorance of the rest of the World

A Commercial cover of 2010 TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World with Didier Drogba, Lady Gaga and Bill Clinton.

2010 TIME 100: A Compilation of Western Ignorance of the rest of the World

~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

The TIME's honor list of the 100 most influential VIPs in the world should be debated and disputed, because time and time again, the list is an American or Western view of the most important movers and shakers from their own criteria without much consideration for the rest of the world. They always want to think for us. They always want to use their own yardstick to measure us and they think their own conventional wisdom is the Golden Rule. But they are wrong.

Majority of those on this list have little or no relevance to most of the populations in the developing countries and so do not affect our world.

Who is Sonia Sotomayor to millions of Nigerians?

Who cares about Glenn Beck in Africa? Who is he leading in the world.

TIME name dropping of their own American celebrities and icons means nothing to the majority of the people in Africa, the Amazon Jungles, Asia and the Middle East who are cut off from the rest of the world of TIME and company who employ ignorant reviewers in their newsrooms to compile a list that is useless to them.

We know our leaders and our heroes from what they have done and are still doing for us in our little villages in Africa, on the streets of Mushin the ghetto in Lagos to the streets of Soweto in South Africa.

We know our heroes and you can find them in the all time classic Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan.

Our leaders and heroes may not make the glossy covers of Western neo-colonial magazines and newspapers, but they are making our faces to glow in the moonlight in KwaMashu in Durban and golden in the sunlight in Badiya Ijora in Lagos; and their names are written in gold in the pages of our hearts and we shall cherish the precious moments we have shared in the memories of own Time.

Full List of the people who most affect our world according to TIME, but not according to the rest of the world.

Only Steve "the Alpha Genius" Jobs of Apple gets my two thumbs up for making the honor list of the 2010 TIME 100. I do not know what the rogue Republican poster girl Sarah Palin is doing on the cover.