What Bono doesn’t say about Africa
Celebrities like to portray it as a basket case, but they ignore very real progress.
It's a dark and scary picture of a helpless, backward continent that's being offered up to TV watchers and coffee drinkers. But in fact, the real Africa is quite a bit different. And the problem with all this Western stereotyping is that it manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of some current victories, fueling support for patronizing Western policies designed to rescue the allegedly helpless African people while often discouraging those policies that might actually help.
That article articulates very well what I have been trying to tell the Americans since the first day I came to the US. I believe what is going to help dispel a lot of the negativity’s portrayed on American TVs is for African media houses to come together and start their own TV channel that highlights in an unbiased manner Africa’s strengths and weaknesses.
thanks David..funny thing i bought the la times during my layover at LAX today…i missed this article…