Archive for February, 2009

Africa and the Popular Media

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Lately I’ve become obsessed with sub-Saharan eastern Africa.  It is a place that has been tormented by HIV/AIDs, terrible wars, over-population, corrupt and inept governments, and famine.  Just as you think things are calming down in the region, another disaster breaks out.  The current troubled area is eastern Congo.  Northern Uganda seems to be settling down, but Darfur and southern Sudan are still a mess.  Kenya, where we thought there was hope, recently had a troubled election. 

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