Eyes on Africa - Final Review

Through Eyes on Africa, every presenter might have achieved a lot of fruitions. Even though our voice is not strong enough to be published all over the world, every presenter at least digs his/her stereotypes to make audience realize. While we were contributing, most students would be able to find the African Perspectives. Naturally, we were able to indulge in attractions of natural Africa. The ways to be realized were a bit different. There were students who had shown the real spirits of Africa with particular tribes, regions showing its own culture or custom. On the other hand, there were presenters who had motivated audience by showing tragedy of Africa which mostly related to our allusions. The thing I like about the first case of presenters was that every student who had contributed to tribes, regions indirectly showed that the voice of Africa can be much more unique if “Nationality” is added. It is true that our world is getting global. It is easily recognized that nationalism can be negative in international society for causing territory problem. However, it is obviously true that the case of Africa is a bit different. For rights of human, independence, nationalism was not too much to be deserved as an absolute ideology. A lot of classmates had put themselves for Eyes on Africa. The way Ingrid had put herself on character was extremely impressive. The thing that I like about the second case of presenters was that they mostly used vivid, clear resources to let audience be realized. Since all of audience had allusions of Africa, even though they had never been there before, they at least had an idea that Africa is not like a peaceful continent in 21th century. The key was attention for audience. On that sense, the thing I like is Sabrina’s way to make audience be realized. She first gave all of audience a paper which audience can write something down on it. She asked audience to write what comes on your mind when you first hear of Africa. A lot of people first come up with the negative sides of Africa since they were not indulged in attraction of colorful Africa. Obviously, most classmates wrote something negative like HID, AIDS. She stuck all papers she had gotten on the house she had made. We couldn’t see how the inside house looked like. Since we are stereotyped, it was impossible for us to see the internal Africa. Her idea was meaningful causing attention.

Like TED presentations, presenters don’t put every word on the screen. With deliberate consideration, it would be improving for us not to have all words on our script. If we just make a note showing what content we have briefly, it would be better presentation causing opportunities to eye-contact with audience for attention. If we make a note instead of a script, we will not be stuck by sentence. The next thing I noticed was that vivid imagery can bring fresh impact. That attention by impact does extremely matter. The lasting thing is that I think it would be better if we ask general things for better progress to audience causing attention. Attention is the major thing that has a tremendous power to pull a presentation to success.