Emoji看起来很多，但有时候真的找不到合适的，尤其是当你想表达一些特别有特色的东西时，比如自己国家的文化。
设计师O’Plérou Grebet也有这种感觉，于是他自己出手设计了一套非洲文化的特色emoji，365个，大受欢迎。
图片来源：O’Plerou Grebet
When emoji first began populating Japanese cellphone screens in 1999, modern communication was forever changed.
当表情符号(颜文字)于1999年首次出现在日本人的手机屏幕上时，现代交流的方式就彻底改变了。
The digital image bank, created by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita to convey lengthy sentiments succinctly, rewrote the limits of language for the new millennium. Emoji are a system of symbols in the tradition of hieroglyphics, tailor-made for the efficient conversations today’s technology has afforded us.
由日本艺术家栗田繁孝创建的数字图像银行简明地传达了复杂的情感，为新千禧一代改写了语言的界限。表情符号是一套传统的象形文字符号体系，是为高效对话而量身定制的，也是当今技术所赋予我们的。
As with all innovations that push culture forward, the emoji language has been built upon since its debut. In fact, the Unicode Consortium recently announced that “Emoji 13.0” will appear on devices later this year, featuring 62 new emoji including a piñata, an olive, and a transgender flag.
表情符号与所有推动文化进步的创新一样，自其问世以来，一直致力于推动文化的进步。其实，统一码联盟最近宣布，“表情符号13.0”将于今年晚些时候在设备上上线，其中包括62个新的表情符号，有皮纳塔(piñata)、橄榄和跨性别者标志。
But in 2018, a young designer from the Ivory Coast added a whopping 365 characters to the emoji lexicon—one for each day of the year.
不过，2018年一位来自象牙海岸的年轻设计师为表情符号词典添加了整整365个符号，也就是说，一年中的每一天都有一个。
O’Plérou Grebet, frustrated with mainstream media’s often-inaccurate depictions of African culture, decided to reimagine the popular messaging system through his own fresh perspective. The result? Zouzoukwa, a set of hundreds of downloadable emoji representing West African culture, available for use in WhatsApp. Grebet’s application has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, mostly from Côte d’Ivoire and West Africa, followed by France and Europe.
因主流媒体常对非洲文化做出不准确的描述，O’Plérou Grebet为此而感到失望，于是他决定通过他自己的新视角重新定义这一流行讯息系统。结果如何呢?于是，一套代表西非文化的表情符号Zouzoukwa就诞生了，这些表情符号有数百个，还可以下载，而且可以在WhatsApp(一款智能手机通讯应用)中使用。Grebet的应用程序已被下载逾10万次，其下载用户主要来自科特迪瓦和西非，其次是法国和欧洲。
“I noticed that most of the articles in the media about Africa were focused only on its bad sides and showed a reduced image made of war, hunger, poverty. These elements are true, but it’s not everywhere in the continent, so I wanted to show a different side of my continent through sharing our daily lives with emojis,” Grebet told Co.Design. “The main challenge was finding ideas for every emoji, but my family, my friends and my followers helped me when I was stuck.”
Grebet告诉Co.Design(协同设计，咨询服务商)：“我注意到，媒体上关于非洲的多数文章都只关注了非洲不好的一面，展示了非洲的战争、饥饿和贫困等片面的形象。这些都是真的，但并不是非洲大陆上所有的地方都是如此，所以我想用表情符号来分享我们的日常生活，展现非洲大陆的另一面。我面临的主要挑战是我需要为每一个表情符号寻找创意，不过，在我被难住的时候，我的家人、朋友和粉丝帮助了我。”
The graphic designer endeavored to create a brand-new emoji for each day of the year, noting: “the other challenge was to finish each emoji on time, before midnight. I managed to draw in the morning or in the evening—or both when the emoji was complex—and always finish in time.”
这位平面设计师努力为一年中的每一天创造一个全新的表情符号，他指出：“他面临的另一项挑战是要在午夜之前按时完成每个表情符号。我设法在早上或晚上绘制，如果某个表情符号很复杂，我早上和晚上都会进行绘制，我一直都按时完成表情符号的设计。”
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尼日利亚Nigeria
非洲经济最好的国家是哪个?如果是按经济总量来算，并不是南非，而是西非的尼日利亚，他们的GDP总量在2019年已经达到全球第27，而南非是全球第35。
尼日利亚是非洲第一人口大国，总人口1.73亿，占非洲总人口的16%，同时也是非洲第一大经济体。尼日利亚是非洲能源资源大国，是非洲第一大石油生产和出口大国。
