#7 Final thoughts
Alas, my final blog post is here As my blog comes to an end after a very eye-opening couple of months, I want to echo back to my first post where I talked about writing about Africa. When listening to the IRC WASH 's global talk on ' Decolonising WASH sector knowledge and decolonising systems thinking ' for my university course, I was again reminded of the fact that narratives influence change (see Figure 2). And yet I have probably perpetuated some of the negative tropes about Africa over the course of my blog. This is why I invite you to take my posts with a pinch of salt and mistrust some of my resources, because I have been heavily reliant on information from more questionable and arguably neocolonialist organisations like UNICEF, the World Bank and WHO amongst others. Unfortunately, however, these are the most accessible and powerful sources. Additionally, in this blog I have predominantly focused on the needs and challenges of women instead of men's, and that is
