Plenty has been said about Twitter — the good, the bad and the ugly. Black Twitter can be both hilarious and vengeful. But every so often, a hashtag floats down the timeline that reminds us of the power we all have at our fingertips.

#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou is one of those. It serves as a triumphant ode to the Motherland through the eyes of Twitter users around the globe. It started with one simple tweet, which lead to one fateful retweet, followed by a flood of awesomeness showcasing the beauty, diversity, technology and wealth of African nations. This, of course, was to battle the usual — poor, corrupt, third-world, downtrodden and deprived as often shown in mainstream media.

Here are some of our favorite #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou tweets!

https://twitter.com/Madikoe_/status/613654127185424384/photo/1

Yes Ma'am! RT @THECAROLDANVERS: african fashion. model destiny owusu. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou http://t.co/0mrBHo1sLX

— B. Trill (@Iam_BWill) June 25, 2015

https://twitter.com/mccxnnbiebs/status/613900576858984448

https://twitter.com/_sudaneze/status/613897446863712256

https://twitter.com/ShamsaAhmed/status/613890559980253184

Africa has 3 female heads of state. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/oH4AYRRV3w

— Nadia (@Nadiaalie) June 24, 2015

#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou!!!
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Union Buildings and Pretoria, South Africa pic.twitter.com/HfDUZ7BuQA

— Sir Makhubo IV™ (@MrMakhubo_) June 25, 2015

https://twitter.com/Libin_Dhiin/status/613866359529832449

https://twitter.com/siddiqkamara/status/613836228140646401

https://twitter.com/BlackDebutante/status/613769689764728832

We own that land, we owned those diamonds Africa, Africa🎵#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/wEhpU35Eyg

— Mu’3wiyah (@mavviya) June 24, 2015

#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou Rwanda : The land of a Thousand hills pic.twitter.com/jIWN8DNFxr

— Elie Bahati (@EllisBht) June 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/lunarnomad/status/613661871049043969

https://twitter.com/phosa__m/status/613640648428781568

Lets go to Ghana #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/sGhXuZN8dT

— Ubong Edidion (@DavidQuartz) June 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/misterkaris/status/613565444348346368

https://twitter.com/lunarnomad/status/613475903201390592

https://twitter.com/lunarnomad/status/613453696597233664

https://twitter.com/ShamsaAhmed/status/613451567589662724

https://twitter.com/66nimo/status/613449656572489732

Diversity for days, weeks, decades, centuries, millenniums. #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou pic.twitter.com/ttGhpvrx23

— K-Ci’s (ooh yeah) (@frodeci) June 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/forgottenFINES/status/613447487869833216

https://twitter.com/Ar_Handy/status/613445158256934912

https://twitter.com/lunarnomad/status/613443401212559360

This hashtag had us wanting to grab a passport and get our travel on! Africa is more than a monolith of a certain type of Blackness, and these images remind us of the wide variety of culture, religion and beauty of the entire continent. We are grateful for the insight from those that call each city and country their home and hope it has changed how some see the great lands of Africa.

Did we miss some good ones? Tag #Blavity on Facebook and Twitter!

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