• I dream of the day when these, the African mathematicians and computer specialists in Washington and New York, the African physicists, engineers, doctors, business managers and economists, will return from London and Manchester and Paris and Brussels to add to the African pool of brain power, to enquire into and find solutions to Africa's problems and challenges, to open the African door to the world of knowledge, to elevate Africa's place within the universe of research the information of new knowledge, education and information -Thambo Mbeki, former South African President
  • They therefore concluded that “the findings of this (and other) surveys indicate that coverage of Africa, by the leading sources of American media is, at best, dismissive of the continent’s progress and potential, and thus leading to continued ‘exotification’ and marginalization of the African continent. At worst, coverage disregards recent trends toward democratization, thus betraying an almost contemptuous lack of interest in the potential and progress being achieved on the continent.”

Above excerpt is from a writer: Gbemisola Olujobi

  • By Gbemisola Olujobi - The Africa You Need to Know - Posted on Nov 28, 2006 See Full Article above

Why is the African image so negative?

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Kenyan in me wonders.


Sometimes i wonder what Africa did to deserve heartaches, wars, corruption, greed, disease, hunger and manipulation by the rich. Sometimes i wonder why people sit back and watch cities deteriorate, hunger choke families to death and I also wonder why corrupt, greedy and selfish men and women are elected to run office, while it's obvious they can't run themselves.

I also wonder why the gap between rich and poor is so large. I wonder how a politician who has been in government for over 40 years is still in government being paid with taxpayer money and has no progress, performance or accountability of any kind. Isn't there shame anymore? I wonder how wives and the children of mindless politicians sleep at night.

I also wonder, isn't it embarrassing to ask for an allowance while your work is to sleep, wake up, eat goat, sleep through the 13th commission of inquiry, eat more goat and sleep some more? Isn't it like really embarrassing to make more money than any other elected official in the world, and still have your constituents die of hunger? How does someone sleep at night with all that guilt? I'm just wondering....
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