‘Perhaps Kony 2012’s appeal comes from its “superficiality”, because that way it is able to serve up emotion. Maybe young people connect more to the emotion of stories, not their complexity. And, contrary to what we grown ups think, the kids sometimes need something more than Angry Birds and Grand Theft Auto—they would like to […]
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Dictatorship, War, Hunger, Disease Have Messed Up Africa – But Will Also Save The Continent!
What do these four events have in common? •In 1994 Rwanda faced the world’s worst post-World War II genocide. Beginning April 6 through the next 100 days, at least one million people were slaughtered. The majority of them were Tutsi, like the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) that was fighting the ‘Hutu dominated” (to use the […]
Kenya Media Sinned But Hides Its Head In The Sand And Won’t Learn The Right Lessons From 2007/2008 Madness: A Self-Criticism
There is a saying in our trade that the difference between journalists and doctors is that the latter publish their mistakes – while the doctors bury theirs. There was a reminder of that yesterday (January 23), when the International Criminal Court in The Hague, confirmed charges against four Kenyans for their alleged role in the […]
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