Tiffany Haddish responds to backlash over Zimbabwe TikTok video

The actress says she had been misled about Africa and thought there was "war everyday".

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Haddish faced a backlash from some Zimbabweans on social media after she posted the video of her strolling through the aisles of a supermarket chain in the capital, Harare.

"Look at this grocery store. It's humungous, in Africa," she says in disbelief as she scans rows of shelves with soft drinks, frozen meat and fresh fruit.

The video has been viewed just over 200,000 times on TikTok.

"How ignorant could she be? Did she think that Africans shop from rocks? She needs to travel more and unclog her sadly colonized view of the world. Yikes," raged one user on X.

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